New year but calendar crisis remains the burning question

Now that the furore over the handpass limit in football is over, it’s back to that perennial old January reliable: Fixture overload, player welfare, and possible burnout.

Although we should really be looking forward to the resumption of proper inter-county competition, it now being over five months since Limerick and Galway played the last county hurling game of 2018, and it being roughly the same since Dublin and Tyrone wound up the football year, it still feels wrong; too soon, too much.