Davy Fitzgerald: Offer people hope and open pitches

'You take a four or five-acre field and a bunch of U14s. It’s not a classroom. You can’t compare that to an outdoor environment. You don’t have to have contact training, just allow them to do something'

Wexford manager Davy Fitzgerald: 'Give them that bit of exercise together, the chance to socialise and give their parents the break too'. Picture: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Davy Fitzgerald has pleaded for the Government and GAA to offer people hope and open pitches immediately and start inter-county training sooner than April.

The Wexford manager has been a strong advocate of opening GAA grounds and a return to play going back to the first lockdown last spring and is adamant there are more pluses than disadvantages to doing both in the coming weeks.