Time to give students a break

UCD’S progress in the Leinster club hurling championship has reawakened the debate on university participation in club championships.

As in, “why should universities be allowed to participate in county championships when they’re picking from thousands of students?”

Sloppy, sloppy thinking. First principles: if a university is registered as a club within a county then it is entitled to enter that county championship. Here endeth the lesson. Leave the would-be moralising and moaning about population at the door, because there’s no room to manoeuvre after that.