Fogarty Forum: Loaded August All-Ireland final motion is in jeopardy

Claims that the media are opposed to the split season and are the only people who care about an August All-Ireland final are strange

General Director of the GAA Tom Ryan. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Credit to GAA president Jarlath Burns, he grasped the nettle. He acknowledged the playing season wasn’t sitting quite right and formed a committee headed up by his mentor, former GAA director general Páraic Duffy.

It was 13 years ago at Annual Congress in Derry when Duffy made a rare debate intervention to speak against Cork’s motion, via Derek Kavanagh’s Nemo Rangers, to bring forward the All-Ireland finals by a week.