Colin Sheridan: Why is sports administration, like Middle Eastern politics, so hard?

There are GAA clubs across the country divided in two, between hurling and football, despite working under the same administrative umbrella of the GAA. Two distinct clubs, often in conflict, drawing from the same pool of players, vying for gym time and pitch time and, well, actual time.

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