Feedback from counties divided over extension but new football format may ease pressure points
GAA president Jarlath Burns. Photo: Stephen Marken/Sportsfile
In the vacuum, talk about the vacuum will inevitably amplify. More than four weeks on from the All-Ireland hurling final, three weeks on from the football final, and the inter-county season seems like a distant memory.
The noise around the shift to the split season appears louder than in other years. No concrete evidence of that, just a sense. Not just what’s in print or on the airwaves, but in general conversation too, that the absence of any August exposure of big football or hurling games is coming at a promotional cost the GAA can’t absorb any longer.
