John Fogarty: County is no longer the GAA's Big Bad Wolf

Club and county work best when they work together

PROJECT RESTART: Referee Kieran Kelly throws the sliotar in for last month’s challenge match between Offaly club Lusmagh and Galway outfit Meelick-Eyrecourt. Picture: INPHO/Morgan Treacy

Bedtime stories these days ain’t what they used to be. It seems before the PC crew were turning their bulldozers towards Fawlty Towers they were felling fairytales.

Not that we’re complaining all that much; two-year-olds should be spared the scares as long as possible (for no reason other than a gaunt Ladybird Book illustration, the crooked man who walked a crooked mile still gives me the heebee jeebees).