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, writes John Fogarty.

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.