Throwing barbs and ties: John Costello’s sermon from the mount

The headlines are no surprise, even if the targets are becoming predictable.

Dublin GAA secretary John Costello published his annual report yesterday and, as expected, it was a wide-ranging treatise, a little like the confirmation sermons of Bishop Connie Lucey in Cork long ago, which tended to roam among, and cover, the pressing social issues of the day. Costello’s report, as expected, left stud-marks on the shins of those who begrudge Dublin their dominance of Gaelic football.