John Fogarty: Calendar-year season may be step too far for counties

It came as a great relief to us that the sky didn’t fall in on Sunday. If anything, the majesty of the troposphere over Croke Park that evening seemed to signal approval of the move of the All-Ireland Senior Club Championship finals from March 17 to January.

See, we had been the equivalent of a climate change denier on the switch from St Patrick’s Day. A right old Flat Earth ignoramus about the GAA disconnecting the very essence of itself from the national holiday.