Skelly: Weaker sides could utilise break

Leinster Council chairman Martin Skelly feels that weaker counties — and in particular Kilkenny — should be given special dispensation to assemble squads outside of the GAA’s designated inter-county off-season.

At present, guidelines exist preventing counties from training and playing during prescribed periods at various levels, but the Cats’ 6-34 to 0-2 loss to Louth in the Leinster U21 Football Championship on Wednesday, and the absence of 11 panel members, has raised questions as to whether they should be given more time to prepare.

“It was a comment that I made that perhaps a dispensation could be reached for the likes of Kilkenny,” Skelly says.