Galway hit out over camogie’s failure to have a split season
NEW Galway Camogie Chairman Brian Griffin has described the Camogie Association’s 2021 draft inter-county fixtures proposal, which does not allow for a split season between club and county, as “disappointing”.
Indeed, noting the Camogie Association has failed to gauge the mood of its membership, which he believes would be in favour of a split season, the new Chairman hopes Croke Park will revisit their proposal.
“It is disappointing,” says Griffin, who replaced outgoing Chairman Gerry Hennelly at the recent AGM. “You would expect they would have looked at it. They had plenty of time to examine it and there wouldn’t have been much resistance from County Boards if they did.
“A split season would give us a better chance to run our club championships, if it was the same as last year, right through the summer months and it would give people at club level an even playing field. There are lots of players who don’t play for their county and for them to have a clear run, like they had last year, was fabulous.”
In the Camogie Association’s 2021 proposal, the inter-county competitions would more or less revert to pre-2020, with the National Leagues running from February to May and the All-Ireland series from July to September.
This would leave just the remainder of May and June free for clubs in the first nine months of the year – and, even at that, county managements would still want access to their players while the Leaving Cert. examinations in June would also impact on club fixtures.
For more, read this week’s Galway City Tribune.
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