On the day of the GAA Special Congress last month, Ger Loughnane outlined his views in his Irish Daily Star column on the new hurling proposals up for debate later that afternoon. Loughnane didn’t agree with them but he accepted that the proposals were likely to be passed. “And if they are,” Loughnane wrote, “then they might as well go the whole hog and change the association’s name to the GFA — the Gaelic Football Association.”Loughnane was wound up long before he came to that conclusion. The new system has certain benefits — the guarantee of at least four big games, two of which will be at home — but the kernel of Loughnane’s argument focussed on how the new structures will radically condense the hurling…

Source: The Times October 18, 2017 23:02 UTC