There’s hammerings in rugby and soccer too, says GAA’s Paraic Duffy

GAA Director General Paraic Duffy has issued a passionate defence of the under fire football Championship, flatly rejecting Jim McGuinness’ claim that last weekend was a ‘watershed moment’ necessitating urgent overhaul.

Former All-Ireland winning Donegal manager McGuinness said he found it ‘genuinely disturbing’ that in all four major Croke Park games, the gap was so wide between the winners and losers.

Kerry hammered Kildare by 27 points while Dublin and Tyrone were 13 and 10 points up at various stages of their respective comfortable wins. In the fourth game, a final round qualifier between Donegal and Galway, Donegal won by 10 points.