GAA must consider its options: McCague

GAA PRESIDENT Sean McCague does not envisage a situation, at least for the foreseeable future, where the inter-county structures could be disbanded in favour of inter-club competition.

Changing population trends mean that the association areexamining new options for the championship but, in the short term, McCague said he was more concerned about the negative impact on current club activity given the enhanced inter-county programme and the resultant expansion of live television coverage.

County finances are being hit nationwide by dwindling championship gate receipts and also by the huge increase in the costs of training inter-county teams as a consequence of the extension of panels to 30.