Disharmony and unease as gaelic football goes soul-searching

It came as no surprise to read that Ard Stiúrthóir CLG, Páraic Duffy, sees very little wrong with the Allianz National Football League about to begin again this weekend.

Why would he? On the surface of it, the league is about as democratic a mechanism as there is for allowing counties compete for national honours.

A seven-game series against teams of apparently equal standard should give all teams a genuine measure of where they stand in the hierarchy and of what, if any, progress is being made.