Fogarty Forum: How the GAA devoured itself on Sunday

Whatever about the gross shortcomings of the football championship structure, whatever about the imbalance between the Leinster and Munster hurling competitions, Sunday underlined, in all its ugliness, that the GAA calendar is broken.

Last season, the issue was GAAGO. It still is to an extent. Picture: ©INPHO/James Crombie

Another year, another paywall cracker. And no we don’t mean dodgy boxes.

Sunday’s mesmerising Cork-Clare affair would have been a marketing dream for hurling if it was broadcast on terrestrial television. Instead, a Galway-Kilkenny Leinster round-robin game was offered. A high-scoring draw but nothing like the rampaging 56-score carnival that was produced at SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh.