What Is Answer For GAA Chiefs?

Timeline a concern for McGill

- Pat Nolan

June 14 is D-Day for the GAA in terms of whether they can run off the intercounty Championships without major disruption.

With the New York-Galway and London-Roscommon games, originally fixed for the first week of May, now postponed, that gives the GAA five weeks of leeway from the current Championship start date of May 9 to al low the competitions to conclude on schedule, albeit with some tweaking of formats.

“We would probably do everything in our power to keep the All-Ireland finals where they are currently scheduled so the hurling final is scheduled for the 16th of August and the football final for the 30th of August,” said Feargal McGill, the GAA’s director of games administration yesterday.

“I would imagine as long as we get back on the playing field and as long as we can start our inter-county Championships before the middle of June, then we should be able to retain those dates.”