Players lead way in searching for a format that works
In other years you at least got the sense the television people were really trying — from Kevin McStay and a panel arguing who should have been on but was left out, to Neil Delamere and Patrick Kielty making Michael Lyster wince but a nation laugh at last year’s bash.
This year there wasn’t a hint of sulphur or fun. It was all very stiff, all very inoffensive, all very oifigiúil; even Dessie Farrell, the figurehead of those former renegades the GPA, seemed right at home observing all the banal formalities alongside Christy Cooney and President Mary McAleese.
