Hurling’s green shoots of recovery

It’s been widely argued that the greatest obstacle to the growth of hurling is the GAA’s other major sport, gaelic football. Yesterday in Croke Park the National Hurling Development Plan was launched, a multi-phased strategy that also includes the growth and promotion of camogie — the battleground? Gaelic football’s heartlands.

All those counties north of a line drawn from Galway more or less to the northern tip of county Wexford, with another ‘mission’ headed for Kerry.

The main man behind the plan is GAA president-elect Liam O’Neill, though he didn’t present it in those stark terms, especially not given his position.