Is financial cost of split season a price worth paying?

The tangible cost of the split season? Excluding the team preparations savings it will bring, a price tag of somewhere around €3m is within reason

BOTTOM LINE: Ard Stiúrthóir of the GAA Tom Ryan. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

If there was one term that former GAA director general Páraic Duffy despised it was the “Grab All Association”.

Considering that he oversaw the dwindling of championship replays towards the end of his tenure, the idea that the organisation were out to fleece the pockets of patrons appalled him.