GAA boss eyes up calendar

NICKEY BRENNAN’S suggestion that the National Leagues could revert back to an October start failed to find much favour with the Kilkenny and Limerick hurling managers yesterday.

The new GAA President floated a series of structural changes to the GAA calendar 24 hours earlier in Croke Park with the Tommy Murphy Cup, the minor and U21 grades and county Junior and Intermediate championships all coming under the spotlight.

The call to run off three rounds of the football and hurling leagues in October and November received little support at a pre-NHL final press conference in Dublin's Berkeley Court.