Hurling league hit by different agendas

And so 82 National League fixtures shoehorned for five March weekends will be ramrodded into four.

Providing floodwater and/or further bad weather doesn’t cause more difficulties this weekend, all the football and hurling deciders bar the Division 4 football final will take place on the same weekend at the end of the month.

Of course it was scheduled that both top flight finals would have had a weekend for themselves but beggars can’t be choosers and right now the GAA’s fixture-makers find themselves just wanting this to all be over so that the organisation can at least show they tried to stick to their pledge of making April all about the club.