Challenges facing the GAA are all about enforcement

Burnout. Calendar issues. Fixtures. Money challenges. Michael Moynihan reflects.

So far, this GAA year seems to be the same as most of the others in recent memory — a flurry of questions being asked in order, it seems, to fill the days until the season proper throws in (apologies, Waterford Crystal; sorry about that, Dr McKenna).

The connectedness of those issues — what’s that movie in the cinemas at present, The Theory of Everything? — can’t be denied. Compressing fixtures puts pressure on the calendar; that increases the chances of burnout; and injuries cost money.