Age grade debate: 'A fella can go down the street with two children at 18 but he can’t play junior hurling with his club?'

As a special meeting of Cork GAA proved, finding a solution to an issue that is minor in name only will be no easy fix

U18 CRUX: Cork GAA's well -attended meeting on Age Grades

THEY counted 47 different speakers at Tuesday’s special meeting of the Cork GAA board. Now that figure might be out by one or two, but the meeting ran for almost two hours and trying to identify every speaker and their club was not helped by a temperamental microphone. “I can’t hear a thing being said”, bellowed someone from the back.

So what age did Cork clubs wanted the minor grade set at — U17 or U18? Decouple or not decouple? Or maybe somewhere in between. If such a space can even exist or can be permitted to exist by those above in Croke Park.