All the President’s plans

POLICY or planning, a President’s work is never done. A fortnight ago Christy Cooney was imploring people to take care on the Croke Park pitch as they swarmed across the turf to celebrate Kilkenny’s All-Ireland hurling final victory.

It’s a fair indication of how policy feeds into planning. There was a knee-jerk reaction calling for fences in Jones Road afterwards, but Cooney isn’t buying into that.

However, it doesn’t alter the fact that pitch invasions pose a huge challenge to Cooney and his fellow administrators.