Too much is being asked of young players too soon and by removing the traditional stepping stones to senior, more and more of them are going to fall through the cracks
Football Championship
Seán Moran: Sense of unease as All-Ireland football series opens to underwhelming crowds while Munster hurling attendances continue to soar
Kerry are bringing threats from deep, Mayo like to go on the loop, while Roscommon get joy from wrap-arounds
Limerick’s season is going exactly how they would want; Dublin wind it up; Keith Rossiter’s Wexford revival; and those bloody abacuses
It’s interesting to note that the final 12 of the Liam MacCarthy this year will be identical to the line-up who started out in there in 2005
‘We played for the first time all year with the sense of energy and abandonment because we won Ulster’
All-Ireland champions scored 2-4 without response from the 55th minute with goals from Colm Basquel and Con O’Callaghan
Orchard County bounce back from Ulster final defeat with comfortable opening win in All-Ireland series
Three first-half goals put Ger Brennan’s side in control of affairs in Inniskeen
In last year’s All-Ireland draw, Conor Carroll ran Dublin ragged in the heat - Dessie Farrell will be prepared this time around
Dublin transformed from the comedy warmup act to the Dubs, a behemoth of the GAA
Sides level on seven points apiece early in the second half but Mayo pull away for third consecutive minor crown
Louth full-back Dermot Campbell returns to fitness ahead of Saturday’s clash after recovering from a hamstring injury
‘Life is frustratingly short on clarity and so too are league tables where three teams out of four … can qualify’
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