John Coleman: If we’ve survived the season, we’ll survive the agm

There’s really nothing like the GAA club annual general meeting.

It has all the frustration and intrigue of real politics but with that bit more goodwill. That little bit. It can be a symbol of democracy at its purest and simplest. Where else do you get the chance to attend a gathering of people and have your say about something that’s really important to you, whatever that say may be?

The pub is the only other place I can think of, but they don’t have to listen to you there. Our constitution gives us a right to vote but let’s call a spade a spade; a vote is no substitute for the catharsis of telling the members of your club that you thought that the style of hurling played last year was pathetic. Or words to that effect. Through the chair, obviously.