Tackle U18 age grade dilemma or watch talent drift away

DILEMMA: Cork GAA has parked plan to introduce a hybrid grade, for now. ©INPHO/Bryan Keane

Perhaps it was the deafening noise of the inter-county train, or maybe it was the shelving of Special Congress and the realisation this brought that the can has been kicked all the way into next spring.

One way or the other, debate surrounding the contentious - and unresolved - issue of underage grades quietened in recent months. A leading ticket item in the run-up to annual Congress last February, it slipped back down the GAA agenda thereafter.