Letters to the Editor: The GAA should put our minor finals on the big stage

A reader poses a question and answer: 'Where would any minor player in the country like to play the final? Croke Park of course'

Some 12,000 spectators enjoyed the minor hurling final in Nowlan Park on June 29, at the same time as the Dublin v Galway football semi-final at Croke Park. Picture: INPHO/Ken Sutton

Am I a voice crying in the wilderness? Sometimes it feels like that and all I merit from those that should know better is scorn, sneering, and dismissal. Be that as it may I will continue to privately and publicly express my strongly held views in regards the direction the GAA is going. As a card-carrying member for more than 50 years I feel entitled — even duty-bound — to make my views known.

I must say I think it’s absolutely disgraceful what has been done to the GAA minor hurling and football championships. Clubs, indeed counties, often tossed for the venue for a league game or maybe a championship first round but tossing for the venue for an All-Ireland final — can we demean the minor competitions much more?