{"id":292298,"date":"2026-02-11T11:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/292298\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T11:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T11:42:07","slug":"former-referee-fergal-horgan-calls-on-gaa-to-get-rid-of-the-assessor-in-the-stand-irish-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/292298\/","title":{"rendered":"Former referee Fergal Horgan calls on GAA to &#039;get rid of the assessor in the stand&#039; &#8211; Irish Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiakFVX3lxTE52bDZrV2FYOGZ5R0hXbHpvMThwM2RvaFNsSTdmLWxPNXNxSFNSWV8wc19nYWtPa0VrbTBsNkFLeUdjZFFGYUFiN0ctd3AweXk3dGFNUnBxbVRSY0lPVUxjNUlWbW01MGFMY2c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Former referee Fergal Horgan calls on GAA to &#8216;get rid of the assessor in the stand&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Examiner<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi5AFBVV95cUxQcUhETHd2NkRDTU1XcUhTZDZPOXZEYXRCNGpFMEtkem5XNFFYak9QTzc4b0R0UjJ2OWxVUER4RlJnV1N4MmFzcS1WTGtKRWkwbVgxUmt2dUs0WE5qVkhfMnFNZldPX29XaGIwU0Q2UDdaNC10dWF1NFA5UUIyWnFlY2dackQ2eXZCT3NscEl5cFR0cm9LZm9rSi1rdlB6REN3RW5uQVpIS2p1QVVVTVNhQ2VIN0VTeHlfOVA0RDVIOWphTlZkSHo5cng3amNmQlMxQlJyLUxzVHZlVmptcDFDV3dKQkw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Martin Breheny: The game is up \u2013 hurling now needs two referees to cope with modern demands<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi-gFBVV95cUxPOGx1SVNXR1ZlTHFYdnVLajNmb2Z5b0pMRGk1c1I1dkNuaGJHLWx6SE0zZlRyTUZ4bUs1NElxWVhvWFlpdUlhWFY1Z3Z3OExNV29QNVJ1WjlReUZMbnFjSGFMeXVmZmxzLVctZ3hOX0gzUHhwVnJza1hnQW4xa0FzOG5VVk1UOXdRWFJTeUtYWVhXVEYzTXFRam9Pd0l3bElrQzdkb1N4YndRc1ZMRE5sMTlrV1NmMUotbUlSbjBwTW1JeFZRaG1QRDdXWU80aVFTU0RQYlRlQUY3eXRBX0p0TGtvaVg4T0N0MG4yM3kxb01QcFRqMEFIVVhR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colm Keys: Hurling and football rules need closer alignment to take the assessors out of the firing line<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiakFVX3lxTE4tMHVXSlRyYUl0ZjlLWm8tcjdYZDIzM0UxWWNoeXJwd1RXRl9aZU9MdWlUclE5bzdDYkxMT3NtOG5UeENlMWJwVlZaQ0NPekdVUnZHMWgxdFlFazIzeDhVb1BmWUl3d3JSS2c?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brian Gavin: Leadership void to blame for inconsistent hurling refereeing<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Examiner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former referee Fergal Horgan calls on GAA to &#8216;get rid of the assessor in the stand&#8217;&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish ExaminerMartin Breheny:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292299,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1965,1128,61,60,850,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-292298","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-hurling","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-sport","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}