Paul Rouse: Competitive kids keep the score. We don't need to keep it for them

In Go Games, the kids who are competitive all keep score. That’s fine too – we don’t really need to keep it for them.

FUN AND GAMES: Adam O Loinsigh, 4th class Gaelscoil Mhuscraí taking part in the Paul O'Connor Primary School Hurling Blitz, at Gaelcholaiste Mhuire AG North Monastery.

The news that the GAA is clamping down on the provision of any form of competition for players under the age of 12 has provoked a frenzy of debate.

It is worth looking at what exactly is being done. The GAA is reminding County Boards that – as Cahair O’Kane in The Irish News reported there “is no facility, under association rule, for any competitive aspect within these games”.