Nitpicking with rulebook over McCann affair discredits GAA

Nothing can prepare for you for your first glimpse of Garvaghy.

Most of us have seen the photos and the computer-generated 3D images of Tyrone’s £7m-plus Centre of Excellence just off the Ballygawley-Omagh road and read more besides about the 43-acre site, the six pitches, the Celtic T-shaped nerve centre and the beautifully finished ball wall to name but some of its attractions.

And yet driving in to the completed project for the first time on Wednesday evening was still an education. With the sun just beginning to wax and wane over the undulating countryside, and the area carved up between splendid rays here and subtle shadows there, it took on an idyllic sheen that no promotional video could hope to replicate.