Too many games is never a bad complaint but this past weekend’s inter-county GAA action and affairs takes a lot of digesting.

Before the 2013 Leinster final, we were listening to a standard backing track in Dublin.

It’s a shame it’s not in place for this year, this weekend. Picture it – and with weather like this, it’s so easy to picture it.

Celebrating league titles are all the rage these days. Kerry’s footballers lost themselves for a minute or two on the Croke Park pitch before there was a collective realisation that it was early April. 

O’Loughlin Gaels have proposed a Danesfort player be nominated as Kilkenny captain in the event Mark Bergin not start.

Galway’s future in the Leinster hurling championship has been placed in doubt with two clubs from the county submitting proposals to withdraw from the province in 2017 if they are not granted equal status.

Dublin hurler Johnny McCaffrey believes this summer’s Leinster championship is the most open in recent history and insists the current squad assembled under Ger Cunningham is stronger than Anthony Daly’s 2013 provincial-winning side.

Outgoing Galway hurling committee chairman Joe Byrne has fired a parting shot at the Leinster Council and GAA headquarters for its refusal to allow Galway underage teams partake in the Leinster championships.

The Leinster Council will vote next month on whether to allow Galway’s minor and U21 hurling teams into the province following Wednesday night’s presentation from leading Tribe officials seeking full integration.

Anthony Daly took in the stony faces clutching microphones and, unlike most of his buddies in the bainisteoirs’ club who would have braced for combat, defused the tension as only he can.

Despite landing his 14th Leinster Senior Hurling title as Kilkenny manager thanks to a 12-point win over Dublin, Brian Cody said it wasn’t all that easy at Croke Park this afternoon.

"Listen up lads, there are five changes to the Kilkenny team," announced the steward to a crowded press box 20 minutes before throw-in.

There have been many contentious changes introduced by the GAA in recent years, the hurling penalty/20m free debacle just the latest example.

Dublin 0-22 Wexford 1-14

At first glance, it seems preposterous, a shambles, a fudge, the proverbial camel you invariably get when a committee tries to draw a horse.

A heartbroken community yesterday heard that people with issues need to speak out and let others know that they are experiencing difficulties.

What a year for hurling and a wonderful final to cap it all. Congratulations to Davy and hard luck to Jimmy.

Fergal Moore has to rely on what others have told him about the manner of Galway’s exit from the National League at Kilkenny’s hands last month, having departed the fray on a stretcher after an accidental clash of heads with Walter Walsh.

Kilkenny and Galway have both made one change from their respective semi-final wins for tomorrow’s All-Ireland SHC final.

The chairman of the Galway Races said that it was testimony to the stature of the annual summer festival that sponsors have been found for all 52 races, when details of this year’s festival were announced in Galway yesterday

It was a huge day for Galway hurling on Sunday, a historic day, Kilkenny beaten and, just as significantly, a first Leinster title for Connacht’s lone top-level flag-bearer.

For 10 years, they got knocked about in the Munster Championship before that particular experiment was abandoned and Galway’s retreated to their decaying kingdom of Connacht in 1969.

Galway 2-21 Kilkenny 2-11

It’s not the same as New Zealand where every single All Black who pulls on that famous shirt will do everything in his power to avoid becoming a member of the first side to lose to Ireland.

COUNTY champions Clough Ballacolla remain hot favourites to retain the Laois SHC crown as they booked their place in the quarter-final.

“IT’S the little luxuries you miss,” sighs James Ryall, looking at his Lucozade Sport bottle as he prepares to take a gulp heading to Graigue-Ballycallan training.

KILKENNY didn’t give much truck to the merchants of doom after their league final loss and they aren’t paying much more attention to the garlands being thrown their way after their destruction of Dublin in Sunday’s Leinster final.

New Dublin football manager Pat Gilroy has been more open with the media than his predecessor Paul Caffrey ahead of their Leinster SFC final clash with Kieran McGeeney’s Kildare in Croke Park on Sunday.

CHA FITZPATRICK admits the lack of a serious test in Leinster is a worry for Kilkenny ahead of their All-Ireland semi-final next month.

THE job complete, John Conran stood in the corridor beneath the Hogan Stand and almost dared anyone to write off this or any other Wexford team again.