Hectic hurling calendar needs a health check, insists John Kiely

As well as arguing the U17 and U20 grades are too young, Treaty boss feels GAA split season can be refined and fears the Allianz Hurling League is being “devalued”

Silver linings: Limerick manager John Kiely celebrates with the Liam MacCarthy Cup after the GAA Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championship Final match between Kilkenny and Limerick at Croke Park in Dublin. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile

John Kiely has major worries that hurling’s calendar and the change to the under-age grades is damaging the development of the game.

As he intends heading on a holiday to Italy with his wife Louise and daughters Aoife and Ruth, Limerick’s four-time All-Ireland SHC winning manager has no issue about putting hurling on the backburner - “Am I sorry that I haven’t got to go to training for the rest of this summer? I’m not, really.”