'Football is their life down around here'

Beara Community School face Our Lady’s College, Belmullet in Saturday's All-Ireland Post Primary Schools Senior D football final

In attendance at the Masita GAA All-Ireland Post Primary Schools Championships captain's call at Croke Park in Dublin is Brendan Conway of Our Lady's Secondary School and Fintan Fenner of Scoil Phobail Bheara, Cork. 

One of the less high-profile recommendations in the 2019 report of the fixtures calendar review taskforce was that post-primary competitions in the C and D grades be concluded at the provincial final stage.

The committee’s final report contained 32 recommendations, chief among them being three separate proposals to reshape the All-Ireland SFC, and so, unsurprisingly, there was next to no attention paid to denying a large cohort of secondary school students the opportunity to compete for All-Ireland honours.