Miracle as Injured GAA player Mark McGovern wakes up from coma

There is no place in Gaelic Football for that sort of Conduct. My well placed informants tell me that it was deliberate and premeditated. The offenders should be prosectuted to the full extent of the law. Just because somebody puts on a Sports Shirt does not automatically exclude them from blame in a incident like this one., It pains me to see that a lot of people that saw the incident will not come forward. "The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who in a great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. I don't know how they can live with themselves.

In your article you refer to the incident as an ACCIDENT. To me, a deliberate kick to the head would not fall under the category of ACCIDENT.

If it can be proven with relative certainty that the injury was the result of an intentional effort the opposing player(s) deemed to be suspected of the attack/injury should be brought to trial for felony assault or attempted murder. The practice of exempting from legal repercussions attacks which take place in the context of sporting events needs to stop. These attacks are common in soccer and my son's concussions and post-injury surgeries while playing soccer up to the Olympic Development level are proof to me. Even with videotaped evidence of intentional attacks obviously intended to cause severe injury (a running elbow spear to the temple) law enforcement will not act on attacks in the context of a sporting event.

Dear Ms. Kozupsky, as a journalist, you should be aware of the danger in lifting stories from other sources without attribution, like say Erin Sherbert's column "The Snitch" on the blog SF Weekly . First, it is an ethical violation of journalistic standards; second, if the source you take info or "facts" from without attribution is WRONG (as in this case, where Ms. Sherbert mistakenly claims McGovern was injured from being "kicked in the head"), then you must take the fall for their error as opposed to attributing the story to the source you "lifted" it from. Then, the source is wrong and you only quoted them.