Kinsella fears FRC may have got their dates wrong

Decades of fixture-making have taught Paul Kinsella many things but one abiding lesson: the longer a club is in a championship the better it is for the club’s prosperity.

That might go without saying but the GAA’s national fixtures committee chairman senses a real danger to the integrity of several county championships on foot of the Football Review Committee’s proposal to finish all club championship activity in the calendar year.

Passed at Central Council last June, the recommendation will be framed in a motion to be voted on at Congress next year with a mind to coming fin operation in 2016. It can be taken for granted it will apply to hurling too.