Conor Cooney has warned that rural Ireland is on “it’s last legs’” and called on the GAA to play its part in addressing the crisis by investing more in clubs that are struggling for numbers, resources and, in too many cases, their very lives. This Sunday’s finalists aren’t the only rural outfits to have graced Croke Park on St Patrick’s Day in recent years. But it’s a wider problem maybe in the GAA itself, particularly in rural Ireland. So, yes, the GAA definitely has to look at maybe putting more resources back into rural Ireland. “Maybe, as a broader society, we need to look at supporting rural Ireland more because it’s on its last legs really, the way things are going.

Source: Irish Examiner March 12, 2019 06:00 UTC