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Of the 16 Sam Maguire Cup teams, only Cork and Westmeath held championship fixtures in July

Sean Connery, Kilmallock, trying to control the sliotar against Doon in the Limerick SHC in TUS Gaelic Grounds. Picture Brendan Gleeson

Fifteen years ago, then GAA chief executive Páraic Duffy sat down with his erstwhile counterparts, the FAI’s John Delaney and IRFU’s Philip Browne, for a joint interview.

Duffy admitted to being jealous of the power the other two commanded. “Well, John and Philip have a huge international dimension to their work whereas I have 32 independent republics,” he told the Irish Times. “That is the big difference.”