Rule book not always enough

Hot on the heels of Donegal player Paddy McBrearty’s no show a couple of weeks ago at a GAA disciplinary hearing, we now have the ‘Corbett-Delaney Avoidance’, which sounds more Richard Ludlum thriller title than GAA embarrassment.

It’s an embarrassment all right, though. Coming swiftly after the McBrearty farrago, not to mention the spluttering non event of a championship starter last week in New York, it hasn’t been a stellar fortnight for the association.

Curiously enough we are no longer being asked to make comparisons between how the GAA works and how other sports operate, which is regrettable.