Both sides at fault as characters remain hidden

Last week Donal Óg Cusack wrote a piece for the GAA’s website on the nature of the relationships between those responsible for what we see on the field of play and those whose job it is to record such events and anything which they may perceive to be of note either side of the week’s most important 70 minutes.

Some of the GPA chairman’s views have already been challenged by fellow members of the fourth estate — and with good reason — but the article contained many worthwhile observances and drew a welcome spotlight on what has long been a deteriorating state of affairs.

It isn’t the intention here to get into the rights or wrongs of what Cusack wrote or what that actual state of affairs may be between one group of people who do their damnedest to disguise their true feelings and another whose intention it is to squeeze every last drop of meaningful information out of them.