John Fogarty: As Croke Park plans, the county boards laugh

SUPER STUFF: Monaleen GAA player David Power delivers shopping to The Sisters of the Little Company of Mary in Milford, Limerick yesterday. From left: Sister Alice Culhane, Sister Breda Conway, and Sister Denise Maher. 

Well, nobody could say the GAA haven’t treaded softly. Too softly at times. The insistence on players and management filling out a questionnaire each time they entered their club’s grounds would have been bureaucratic hell.

Similarly, putting the responsibility of temperature checks on volunteers was a weight too much to bear. It came as no surprise when that precaution was ditched nor when the role of a Covid-19 officer was downgraded to supervisor. By all means, insist that completing the coronavirus eLearning module be a requisite to returning to play and being involved and ensure there is sanitising everywhere but anything else and the law of diminishing return to play would have applied.