More is less for fixture list as codes pitted against each other

A weekend with so many fixtures is overload, writes John Fogarty. 

Mammoth GAA weekend, wasn’t it — 32 Allianz League games and two All-Ireland club senior football semi-finals. Seven matches televised live, Roscommon-Donegal deferred. Bountiful, right? Wrong. More like overload.

If you felt like you missed out, you weren’t alone. The average GAA follower wouldn’t have known where to turn. Apart from the last-four club SFC games, the hurling competition has traditionally had its opening weekend all to itself. On this occasion, it felt more like a football weekend.