COLUMN: 'For how long will the GAA allow this final-day farce to continue?'

Our columnist Anne-Marie Flynn offered her take after the National League meeting of Mayo and Roscommon

I know, I shouldn’t start this column by giving out, especially off the back of such a comprehensive and emphatic victory by Moran’s Mayo to close out their first league campaign.

And this is an annual rant. But how long will the GAA allow this final-day farce to continue?

Only in Ireland, only in the topsy-turvy world of the Gaelic Athletic Association could you have a competition that is increasingly regarded as the best on offer in the code, apart from the fact that when it boils down to it, several teams will do their best to avoid winning it.

And – for bonus giving-out points - how long will they continue to lag behind other sports in their promotion of the league?  

Credit to TG4 who streamed an impressive number of games yesterday, while the flashy GAA service some of us pay through the nose for, sat idle for the day.

Plenty in the GAA, myself included  would prefer to see the back of Allianz, but I can’t really fathom why they have stuck it this long as sponsors anyway. Let’s park all that for another day, but it is, in its totality, ludicrous.

Shadow-boxing was the theme of the day on Sunday, and Mayo v Roscommon certainly lived up to the billing - from a Roscommon point of view, at least.

The weekend’s Irish Times featured an interview by Gordon Manning with former Ballaghaderreen........

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