Michael Foley is a Deputy Sports Editor at the Irish edition of The Sunday Times. He specializes in Gaelic games and a broad spectrum of sports, intertwining themes of culture and society, competitive sports, and the arts. Foley's work has been featured in prominent publications such as Medical Economics, Fox News Media, and The Irish Times, among others.
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Michael Foley's coverage largely focuses on local sports, particularly GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) and football in Ireland. He also covers entertainment news related to Dublin. Given his extensive event coverage and some expert commentary, he would likely welcome pitches offering insights from experts or individuals involved in the world of Irish sports, especially those related to GAA events, football matches, or developments within the local sports community.
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O’Connor got the better of his rivals during playing days, but his side are underdogs going into Sunday’s Munster Championship clash
Munster games get top billing but Leinster is ‘a rest of Ireland championship’ with too many teams to develop into contenders — and there are no easy fixes
By: Michael Foley
Kerry’s star man has often struggled to produce truly dominant displays against Cork. Dan O’Mahony hopes to keep it that way in Munster SFC final
Monaghan manager talks about getting through an injury crisis to an Ulster final and the inspiration of his late brother and a life spent in football
Kerry 0-16 Donegal 2-20: Blood is spilled in furious brawls but goals from Ciaran Moore and Shea Malone helpe to revive Donegal’s season
By: Michael Foley
Leinster semi-final victory in 2013 remains Dublin’s only win over rivals in past 49 championship games and reinforced how their greatest battle in fixture is against themselves
How despondent Dubs’ transition from their last All-Ireland winning team in 2023 is proving an acutely painful experience
By: Michael Foley
Dinny Allen and Diarmuid O’Donovan reminisce on the dire state of the old Cork Athletic Grounds, fundraising for the Páirc and its less than auspicious opening day
By: Michael Foley
Dublin 4-15 Galway 4-29: Galway claim first Leinster title since 2018, extending Dublin’s wait for glory to 13 years
By: Michael Foley, Danqi Wang, Kayla Chiew, Krzysztof Macierzanka, Florentina Simader, Rasha Al-Lamee, Paras Dixit, Christopher Rajkumar, Darrel Francis, Matthew Shun-Shin, Shayna Chotai, Fiyyaz Ahmed-Jushuf
Background In stable coronary artery disease (CAD), the primary goal of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is symptom relief. Fractional flow reserve (FFR) and non-hyperaemic pressure ratios such as resting full-cycle ratio (RFR) are used to guide revascularisation. While these indices correlate with myocardial ischaemia, they have never been validated against the onset of angina. The physiological thresholds for angina (FFR angina and RFR angina ) at rest and during exercise remains undefined.Methods This was a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study in patients with stable angina and single-vessel CAD. Following imaging-guided PCI, an in-stent balloon was incrementally inflated until angina occurred at rest. This angina threshold was verified against placebo inflation, and corresponding FFR angina and RFR angina values were measured at symptom onset. The protocol was repeated during low- and high-intensity exercise to assess change in angina thresholds with increasing cardiac workload.Results Sixty-five patients were enrolled (mean age 63.9 ± 8.7 years; 74% male; 90.8% had Canadian Cardiovascular Society class II or III angina). Median pre-PCI FFR and RFR were 0.59 (IQR 0.46–0.70) and 0.61 (IQR 0.40–0.82), respectively, improving post-PCI to 0.88 (IQR 0.84–0.92) and 0.92 (IQR 0.90–0.94). During the research protocol, median FFR angina at rest was 0.29 (IQR 0.23–0.35), increasing to 0.38 (IQR 0.30–0.48) during low-intensity exercise and 0.45 (IQR 0.36–0.55) during high-intensity exercise. RFR angina similarly increased from 0.22 (IQR 0.16–0.30) at rest to 0.26 (0.18-0.36) and 0.32 (0.23-0.46) with low- and high-intensity exercise. All thresholds were significantly lower than clinical diagnostic cutpoints (P0.999).Conclusion Physiological thresholds for angina (FFR angina and RFR angina ) were highly individualised, workload-dependent, and substantially lower than ischaemia-based clinical cutpoints. A personalised, symptom-guided strategy is essential to improve patient selection and achieve meaningful angina relief with PCI.
