KIERAN SHANNON: Distrust of management must be ended

One of the healthiest things about the GAA is everyone is free to give out about it. Even — especially — its own.

There’s hardly a day that goes by where you pick up a paper and there’s some official or manager or former player being critical of something: the timing of a fixture, the relevance or downplaying of a competition, a certain regulation or rule, the brigade up in Croke Park.

For the most part, those on the receiving end take it on the chin. They understand it’s part of the game, often for the better of the game, that a lot of the time there’s a grain of truth — and a solution — in the complaint.