Age the main battleground as Congress considers burnout measures

History shows the major burnout proposals voted on at Special Congress in 2008 were defeated. History also tells they were the right ideas at the wrong time.

Like a sufferer in denial, it was obvious the GAA needed the medication but didn’t consent to its administration.

The Dr Pat O’Neill-led burnout committee’s call to do away with the minor and U21 grades and replace them with the compromise of a new U19 level was too radical. While other logical steps such as banning freshers from playing in the Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cups were taken, the headline recommendation was defeated, 58 voting for it and 115 against.