Fogarty Forum: Common ground needed for Integration appears a long way off 

Together, the three bodies are undoubtedly stronger but what is envisaged is expensive and involves all of them finding a common ground that they don’t yet appear to be prepared to discover.

Steering Committee Chairperson Mary McAleese speaking during the February update on the integration process. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

The sound you hear is silence.

Integration of the GAA, Ladies Gaelic Football Association (LGFA) and Camogie Association (CA) has dropped off the agenda. Not since February when an ambitious three-year pathway to an amalgamation that was remarkably sketchy on detail was launched has anything meaningful in public been uttered about the initiative.