Regan launches scathing attack on GAA’s attitude to hurling

FORMER Offaly great, Daithí Regan, has blasted GAA officials for paying lip service to hurling and being “more interested in balancing the books” than promoting the game.

Regan, who won an All-Ireland with the Faithful in 1994 and is now a respected analyst with Newstalk and TV3, insists the decreasing competitiveness of the likes of Clare, Wexford, Laois, Offaly and Limerick is of much greater concern than the weakness of hurling in traditional football counties.

He attributes this demise to the introduction of the back door system, which he says, is also creating havoc with club games, but will never be dispensed with as it is “a cash cow”.