Duffy wants six-day final turnaround

GAA Director-General Páraic Duffy believes that any future All-Ireland senior final replays should be played the following Saturday.

In 2014, the hurling final was drawn for the third successive year. While the 2012 replay between Kilkenny and Galway was played the following Sunday, the subsequent two have been played on a Saturday evening, 20 days later. The delay before this year’s replay between Kilkenny and Tipperary has caused problems for the running of Tipp’s county championships and Duffy believes a repeat must be avoided.

“That’s something we can address,” he told Newstalk. “One of the things this year was that we had a drawn All-Ireland final and the replay was three weeks later, that played puck with the fixtures in Tipperary, particularly as a dual county, and Kilkenny less so. We have to look at the possibility in future, if there are draws, of playing them the following Saturday. It would be logistically challenging but it could be done.