Irate county footballers can learn plenty from Thunberg defiance

Some Friday protests are more powerful than others.

Seven days before schoolchildren around the world took to the streets to demonstrate the urgent need for climate action, the GPA issued a statement requesting that the GAA’s Central Council held off approving a proposal for a two-tier football championship to go forward at a special Congress in Cork next month; the fixtures task force would be reporting its recommendations in November, so why rush in some format that could be inconsistent with them?