John Fogarty: Government need to stop using the GAA as a political football

Chequered flag: Fantastic Fionn raises €15k for Dan trust - Watched by his brother Luke, Eight-year-old Fionn McAnaney completes a 10km bike ride in aid of the Dan Donoher trust on Saturday. Young Raharney hurler Fionn, who has cerebral palsy and had selective dorsal rhizotomy surgery in the US last July, raised almost €15,000 for Laois toddler Dan having only learnt to ride his bike late last month.

IT’S not the nights that are the hardest for the GAA; it’s the weekends. For it’s at them that the Government come stealing to surprise them with a dig to the solar plexus.

On Friday, and for the third weekend in succession, they gave Croke Park officials reason to be incredulous.