2020 Intercounty championships to be debated by GAA management today

RTE are today reporting that the GAA’s management committee and chairpersons from each county board will meet today to discuss the 2020 All-Ireland Championships, which have been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The championships which were due to start last weekend have been given no return date. However the government outlined how sport such as the GAA could provisionally return on 20 July.

However, there are discussions that the trainings will be prohibited until a much later date which could signal the end of the championships for this year before they even begin.

The GAA have already indicated that the club championships will take priority and return first.

Earlier in the week, both Limerick Senior Football manager Billy Lee and Senior Hurling manager John Kiely outlined the importance of player welfare in returning to sport.

Connacht GAA president Gerry McGovern also echoed those concerns and insisted that the 2020 championships be scrapped altogether with a focus on 2021.