John Grainger: Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cups must be rescheduled to November

Competing sports will exploit any dilution of Gaelic games at third level, insists the UCC GAA development officer

As for interest in the games, John Grainger recalls the tens of thousands of hits for Mark Coleman’s winning sideline cut for UCC against DCU in last February’s Fitzgibbon Cup semi-final. Picture: INPHO/Tom O'Hanlon

Competing sports will exploit any dilution of Gaelic games at third level, insists UCC GAA development officer John Grainger.

As the 2021 Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cups have been cancelled for this academic year, Grainger says the competitions must be rescheduled in November, pending restrictions. That has yet to be confirmed, though, and there is a fear that Croke Park will be loathe to shoehorn the competitions into the calendar at that time of the year.