Colin Sheridan: Expect Ulster to crack Gaelic football's new puzzle before the rest
What we have seen over the last two decades in the GAA is overdone redevelopment of county grounds, often with increased capacities that are unnecessary and rarely justified. Could Fitzgerald Stadium in Killarney be another example?
Colin Sheridan is a writer and columnist. A former officer in the Irish Defence Forces he has extensive deployment experience as a peacekeeper with the United Nations, having lived and worked in the former Yugoslavia, West Africa, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Palestine.
“All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born” - Easter 1916, WB Yeats
As eras go, the 2012 to 2024 period of ‘Protect the Rock’ may well be forever labelled as Gaelic football’s Dark Ages. There were anomalous days, of course, most of them involving Mayo and some chaotic abandonment of an overthought plan - but, with regard to watching and playing the sport as an act of passive recreation - the last dozen years have been - at best - a grind.
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