John Fogarty: GAA too big to be the sport that starts first

The Government’s decision to give the League of Ireland the go ahead next month is the fly in the ointment

Pairc Uí Chaoimh will be one of five vaccination centres used in Cork, it was confirmed yesterday. Mallow GAA will also be a vaccination centre. Picture: Larry Cummins

Boy, has this pandemic made a fool out of us all. So much so that it was difficult to make out who was the biggest one last week when it was revealed inter-county GAA’s exemption as a level 5 sport had elapsed.

Clearly, nobody told the GAA. Oblivious to that fact, they formulated a master fixtures programme for 2021. So concerned were they themselves with the Covid case numbers last month that, not for the first month, they chose to hold their horses and postpone the return of inter-county training.