County boards will shoulder all the blame should club championships not be completed on schedule this year. That was the impassioned assertion of GAA director general Páraic Duffy in Croke Park yesterday as he delivered his 11th and final annual report. There is no reason why any county can’t play four rounds of games [in April]. He also pointed out that the majority of counties will be in a position to return to club games involving inter-county players by the middle to end of July. Meanwhile, Duffy strongly came to the defence of Dublin in his report, following their third consecutive All-Ireland SFC win last September.

Source: Irish Examiner January 24, 2018 00:00 UTC