O’Neill: ‘Hurling is hanging by a thread in some counties’

“Hurling is hanging by a thread in many counties.”

Those were the words of GAA President-elect Liam O’Neill in Croke Park yesterday as he launched the long-awaited National HurlingDevelopment Plan.

“We looked at the nine developing counties [Longford, Louth, Leitrim, Sligo, Donegal, Tyrone, Cavan,Monaghan and Fermanagh].