Time for a frank look at flawed rule book

IT WAS conceived in confusion, born in confusion, bred in confusion, and has remained there ever since.

It’s so bloody daft, this whole uncertainty around the GAA blood-sub rule. Not an outrage, mind you — outrage is when a government fails to deal with the statutory rape situation, a situation that had been flagged for years, but a failure in which, yet again, no-one is to blame, no-one needs to be rebuked or disciplined in any way.

This current Offaly/Kildare blood-sub debacle has also been well flagged, but it’s in a different league. Nevertheless, it does deserve our opprobrium.