Paul Rouse: Revised calendar crucial if Tom Ryan’s plans are to come to fruition

It is not often that the most powerful administrator in any sport acknowledges that the supposedly central premise on which his organisation rests is not what it seems to be, writes Paul Rouse.

It is not often that the most powerful administrator in any sport acknowledges that the supposedly central premise on which his organisation rests is not what it seems to be.

But Tom Ryan, the director-general of the GAA, has done so when he used the GAA’s annual report to consider that great prayer: “The club is at the centre of the GAA.”