Cork facing fixtures conundrum: Rebels play a minimum of 410 domestic games a year

The special GAA congress on hurling leaves the Cork GAA with a “considerable challenge” in getting its fixtures run off next year, according to senior administrator Diarmuid O’Donovan.

The changes to the senior hurling championship include extra games in a round-robin style provincial championship in Munster and Leinster during the months of May and June, but hard information on how those extra fixtures will be accommodated in the calendar has not emerged.

The fixture challenge is not limited to Cork, as sizeable dual counties such as Dublin, Galway and Tipperary can expect to face similar issues in running off county championships, but Cork are now playing a minimum of 410 domestic championship games per year, an increase of 33% on the figure of 306 games just two years ago.