Fine.
The games at all grades should be spread evenly across the Thursday-Sunday period.
The majority of senior and premier intermediate should not be on Wednesday-Friday.
For one of the hurling rounds so far, there was only 6 games on a Sunday including 5 games involving second teams. All 6 were lower intermediate or below.
On Sunday 24 August for example, there was only one senior hurling game, no premier intermediate game, no intermediate or premier junior games even.
4 junior a games and some junior c games.
That’s not a great use of a Sunday in August.
Limerick have developed a bit of a habit too of even playing off County Senior Hurling Finals under lights on a Saturday.
Absolutely bonkers stuff altogether.
Limerick is the only county playing championship games on a Thursday. Very odd scheduling.
The schedule in Limerick is incredibly tough for dual players. I’ve my views but it’s just not right imo. There is some sort of nobility in being a dual club but trying to topple the big outfits in either code with dual players is just incredibly tough. 10 championship games in 11 weeks or whatever is tough going.
3 championship games in the split season isn’t enough for a code imo but 5 for both ends up being too much.
They’d be in the minority. It’s mainly the retired players /parents /aul fellas.
MM ?
Incorrect
Nice edit
Good to see 6 but I am struggling to name the 21-30 age bracket. I only know of one, from nap.
You’d want to be off your trolley to be a GAA ref at the moment surprised the age profile is even that young
Ladies football where it’s at…cash in the hand before the throw in
What rate would you have to be on in Wicklow?
Today would have been a lovely day for an All Ireland Football Final. Cc @Cheasty
Beautiful September nip in the air.
@Cheasty @Galaxy @BruidheanChaorthainn ffs come on dont leave this lad hanging.He’ll delete it shortly if you dont hurry up.
Great day of club hurling action. I wouldnt be pining for a football match. Still hard to watch even with the new rules.
A grand day for a Kerry v Tyrone All-Ireland football final.
Fire up a Martin Breheny style list there of All Ireland Football finals that were played on 21 September.
Kerry v Tyrone, 21 September 1986 for starters. That was the first year the All Ireland Football Final was officially moved from the 4th Sunday in September to the 3rd Sunday in September. It was viewed by many as an unconscionable break with tradition and protocol at the time.
The 1979 All Ireland Football Final was played on the 3rd Sunday in September. That was a one off at the time to accommodate the Papal visit. Pope John Paul II cost Jimmy Keveaney his place in the 1979 All Ireland Final.
ChatGPT - create me a post in the style of Roy Curtis lamenting the split seasons effect on the rhythm of the year and what it has one to him personally
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There was once a sacred rhythm to the Irish year. September Sundays were our cathedral, the All-Ireland final its high mass, a punctuation mark at the end of summer written in sweat, thunder and song. Now, stripped from us, shoved into July, the season feels mutilated — a stolen heartbeat, a ritual desecrated.
And yet as I pace, railing against the vandalism of the calendar, I catch a sour truth: the stench clinging to me is no mystery of dogs or cats. It is me. I am drunk, trousers damp, dignity leaking as surely as September slipped away. Ireland changes. So too, it seems, do I.
