Business as usual, just quieter than usual

AFTER the goings-on over the last couple of months you might think the mini-spat over Cork’s forfeiting of national league points is like another wearying chapter in a book that never seems to end.

Not a bit of it. After the Row That Dare Not Speak Its Name, a little run-of-the-mill crankiness, name-calling and finger-pointing is like a holiday.

First things first. If Cork had been thrown out of the leagues, not having fulfilled fixtures in hurling and football, then nobody on Leeside could have had many complaints. (Although ... hair-splitting though it may be, we understand the GAA agreed to defer the Meath football game, and that Cork were available to play Waterford. Just saying).