O’Shea: Club game facing brunt of the recession

IT has taken some time to manifest itself, but ladies football and camogie are finally being hit by the same unemployment and emigration epidemic which has had such a negative impact on their male counterparts in the GAA.

It was estimated recently that 250 male players were being lost by the Association every month, but a lower age profile and statistics claiming twice as many men as women opt to emigrate had, to some extent, sheltered the women’s games from the economic decline.

Up to a point, anyway.