It should be most exciting year in GAA history. So why doesn’t it feel that way?

Why has it been another winter of discontent? asks Kieran Shannon

As he nudged the GAA towards a tiered football championship with his last annual report as Ard-Stiúrthóir of the GAA, claiming there were “compelling arguments” for such stratification, Páraic Duffy also accepted that that the association couldn’t keep altering its competition structures.

While he personally conceived the Super 8s in football, which in turn triggered the advent of the round-robin provincial championships in hurling, yesterday he made it clear that towards the end of those respective three-year trials, the GAA would have to look for something more permanent.