Kieran Shannon: A good leader is one that creates more leaders. Hurling needs people of that ilk

In an interview with the excellent OurGame podcast last week, Fogarty claimed the failure to fill the vacancy of director-general of the GAA as “a disaster”.

Liam Sheedy.

Just days before the GAA’s CCCC proposed that five lower-ranked counties should be removed from the national hurling league to reduce or redirect costs, Liam Sheedy had already expressed his deep concern that hurling was “in trouble” and his disappointment with the leadership style currently in operation in Croke Park.

“The evidence is mounting that we have serious challenges,” he’d write in his Irish Examiner column, outlining several of them, namely that both the inter-county and club championships were being run off too quickly and that the U21 grade was effectively being killed off.