GAA’s stadium building boom illogical and irresponsible

Firstly, hats off to Paul Rouse for his piece yesterday in the Irish Examiner on GAA grounds and the manner in which the association builds and uses them. 

Or doesn’t, as the latter case may be. Nothing he wrote will be disputed here but the issue is one with multiple angles of approach, so allow us to address this from a slightly different route.

Last Friday, two stories appeared in the sports section of this very newspaper and, while they were written independently, they were in fact linked intimately. The first was on Limerick county secretary Mike O’Riordan’s report to county convention, the other pertained to Ger Loughnane’s treatise on the state of the Munster Championship.