John Fogarty: No time like the present for GAA clubs

It might feel like a summer lost but it could yet be rescued by the hive of sport taking place in the coming five weeks and all going well the business end of the championships will provide an Indian GAA summer

THE HIGH GROUND: Fans find a vantage point to follow the action from outside the ground in Sunday’s Galway SHC clash between Sarsfields and Portumna at Kenny Park, Athenry. Sarsfields won 4-22 to 0-18. Picture: Inpho/James Crombie

After deluges of rain darkened so much of the country on Saturday afternoon, it felt like a light was switched on that evening.

That an abundance of club championship games were thrown in seemed to make it all the brighter, as if the action was pushing against the slow but steady decline of daylights savings time.