When GAA president Larry McCarthy rose in Croke Park to present Kerry with the Sam Maguire after their All Ireland victory two weeks ago, he first thanked the officials – “the unsung heroes of the GAA” – then the GAA’s sponsors before declaring the inter-county season at an end. “Today we finish a wonderful inter-county season and we turn the calendar to the most important part of the GAA, the club championship. And that gives our clubs up and down the country and indeed around the world the opportunity to show all that is good about the GAA,” he said.…

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