Kieran Shannon: Every game will matter when split season dream becomes reality 

If common sense prevails, the split season will be in place next year - and every club and county player will benefit

Imokilly's Niall O'Leary clashes with UCC's Shane Conway during the Cork Premier Senior Hurling Divisional/College final in Páirc Uí Rinn. Mark Landers says this year's Cork championship has been 'remarkable'. Picture: Howard Crowdy

A bit like we were told at the start of the pandemic that the best way for the country to come together was by staying apart, it seems that Covid-19 has taught the GAA that it needs a split – or at least a split season – for everyone to come together.

There is now almost unanimous support for the idea of a separate county and club season, the unexpressed sentiment being that whatever profile the GAA will lose by dispensing with All Ireland inter-county semi-finals and finals in the traditional prime months of August and September will be more than compensated for by having the rest of the year free from the rancour and dissent of incessant claims that the club has been neglected.