The Secretary of the Ulster Schools’ GAA has hit out at some ridiculous training regimes that some Ulster schools have set out over the next two months.

There is a curious notion doing the rounds. This notion imagines that the great challenge in making a success of the GAA’s new All-Ireland B Football Championship is one of marketing.

Club Players’ Association (CPA) chairman, Micheál Briody — one of the chief stakeholders in the recently-established Fixtures Review Committee (FRC) — has insisted there will be no sacred cows left untouched in their quest to find solutions for the vast majority of footballers and hurlers who have their fixtures postponed indefinitely by the inter-county season.