All water under the bridge as Etihad GAA World Games highlight best of GAA

How Argentina’s men — coached energetically by Pat Spillane — had any emotions left after their extra-time victory in the international final is beyond me. But they did, and displayed the sort of joy you associate with their colourful soccer history.

The GAA must always let water flow under the bridge in order to prosper, and this past weekend’s Etihad GAA World Games enjoyed enough goodwill and an uncommon lack of dispute to keep everything flowing nicely.

The lack of water in Abu Dhabi was a physical and figurative context — their limited supply must be recycled into a salty mess on a constant basis.