Cork GAA in danger of 'silent burnout' among volunteers and officers

Cork GAA is in danger of “silent burnout” among volunteers and officers, says the county board’s senior administrator Diarmuid O’Donovan.

In the board’s annual report, O’Donovan points to instances of games having to be moved to different venues due to the absence of volunteers to open the pitches where those games were originally fixed.

The Cork county championship programme has expanded to 19 championships over the past decade, writes O’Donovan, adding: “The Coiste na nÓg programme has expanded to multiples of this figure.