Time to follow the lead of the ladies

GAELIC football is not one of my preferred sports and hasn’t been for some time. There are still a few teams who play it in the right spirit, Cork and Kerry among those, as are Galway, but for the most part I’ve grown sick of the cynicism.

On Sunday, however, I was in Ennis for the Ladies NFL Division One and Two finals and there I saw football as it should be played, and as it could be played, if the men’s game would adopt the rules and spirit of that game.

The four most telling differences between the two games are: