Big squeeze on clubs, but Cork will find solution

Much has been made of a number of the decisions at last week’s Annual Congress.

The introduction of the expanded football quarter-finals or ‘Super 8s’, the decision to move the All- Ireland inter-county finals to August and the withdrawal of a motion to recognise the Club Players Association have featured greatly in every conversation from the parish pump to Twitter.

One would have to have a certain amount of sympathy with the new Uachtarán Tofa, John Horan who secured a remarkable vote to be elected in the first count and has gone virtually unnoticed since. While his role over the next 12 months may be akin to that of the mother of the groom at a wedding i.e. wear a nice hat and don’t hog the limelight, he will, given his mandate, become a major player in directing the fallout from last week’s decisions.