Mike Quirke: The GAA will have lost nothing in waiting

"I find the constant need to ask GAA players and managers what they feel ‘should’ happen into the future in terms of returning to competition about as helpful as getting financial advice from your postman or butcher."

On April 23, the Minister for Education Joe McHugh stood at a podium and boldly pronounced that the leaving cert exams would go ahead at the end of July. Yesterday, that decision was rowed back with the speed and force of the O’Donovan brothers cutting through the water around Skibbereen.

Covid-19 can do that to you; make you look silly in a hurry if you try to get too far ahead of yourself.