Counties like Carlow deserve home comforts

It’s Carlow - the town, the county and its people - who will suffer because of the Leinster Council’s scattergun approach, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Some emails you never expect to open. Take, for example, the missive with details of a press night for the Carlow footballers sent this week to every sports journalist in the country with a passing interest in GAA.

“After this night, Carlow GAA respectfully requests no more media activity take place prior to the Leinster SFC quarter-final on Saturday. June 3,” it ended.