Kieran Shannon: 'Congregation of GAA's finest minds could change the game as we know it - for the better'

Their task? Well, normally the word ‘develop’ or ‘development’ is synonymous with ‘football committee’ but not in this instance.

This time 10 years ago if Jim Gavin, Malachy O’Rourke, James Horan and Eamonn Fitzmaurice were to have sat around in a circle they could have planted every significant trophy in Gaelic football in the middle of it.

O’Rourke the previous summer had just guided Monaghan to their first Ulster title in 25 years.