Finance the only thing standing in the way of All-Ireland Championship

It’s known that the Government are particularly keen for the Championship to take place

GAA president John Horan last Friday stressed “what’s important is that we have the games back and we keep them back”.

Right now, finance and appetite appear to be the only thing standing in the way of the inter-county championships taking place.

Not Covid-19 per se, strangely enough. The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET) have paved the way for inter-county games to take place in lockdown. Were Offaly to face Carlow next weekend in the first round of the Leinster SFC or Laois’ hurlers to take on Dublin in the province’s SHC quarter-final, they could go ahead providing they were played behind closed doors.