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Paul Rouse: Split season not ideal but best we can do for club player

The rationale behind the split-season was the incapacity for county and club to work together
Paul Rouse: Split season not ideal but best we can do for club player

SPLIT SEASON: The words of Tony Dempsey, the former Wexford hurling manager, are worthy of serious consideration in respect of the danger to hurling of the ‘split season’. Pic:©INPHO/Ken Sutton

The words of Tony Dempsey, the former Wexford hurling manager, are worthy of serious consideration in respect of the danger to hurling of the ‘split season’.

When talking to RTÉ’s Pauric Lodge, he said that the reality was that the GAA was handing over the summer to other sports, principally because so many counties were finished their season by the end of May.

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