With the race for the Sam Maguire Cup starting in earnest this weekend with the first of the All-Ireland Group Phase games taking place, we posed a few questions for sports editor Paul Brennan, deputy sports editor Damian Stack and reporter John O’Dowd
At SuperValu’s launch of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship in SuperValu Páirc Uí Chaoimh were, from left, Mícheál Martin (Cork), Cillian McDaid (Galway), Ikem Ugwueru (Clare), David Clifford (Kerry), Jemar Hall (Armagh) and Niall Scully (Dublin). Photo by Inpho
Paul Brennan, Damian Stack and John O’Dowd
Kerryman
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With the National League and provincial championship behind us, how impressed or not have you been with the new rules? Best one, and one for the bin?
Paul Brennan: At the start of the year we fully embraced the advent of the new rules simply on the basis that anything had to be better than what the game had become. Quite frankly, games had become dreadful to watch and dreadful to report on – we can only imagine the big majority of them must have been terrible to play in.