That ‘controversy’ didn’t get its spikes out of the starting blocks

GOD, you’d have thought we were past all that at this stage.

Hands up if you think the biggest issue in the GAA’s inbox this week was where the Irish rugby team trained on Thursday?

There’s no shortage of competition. The festering bitterness between Cork and Kerry continues after the two sides met the weekend before last and three saw red; a less well-known enmity is simmering away nicely between Mayo and Tyrone and came to a brief boil recently as well. We won’t get into Mickey Harte’s threat to ban cameras from covering one of the most successful football teams of the last decade.