Babs Keating warns September switch will be ‘disastrous’

Babs Keating has described the decision to move the All-Ireland finals to August as “disastrous” and claims the September blackout will damage the promotion of Gaelic games.

Prior to Congress last year, when a motion to move each of the senior finals back by two weeks fell less than 6% short of being passed, Keating said the GAA was focusing on the wrong end of the year and called for no inter-county football or hurling to be played in January and February.

He’s just as adamant that removing the finals from their traditional September slots will be detrimental to the GAA in the long run.