Kearney sounds word of warning before camogie games resume

PLANS to restructure the Galway camogie club championships are well advanced but County Secretary Anne Kearney admits that many of the practicalities of running off these games still have to be considered.

Indeed, while there is much enthusiasm within the county in advance of the return of Gaelic games, the Galway Camogie Secretary says there is also an onus on sporting organisations to recognise that not everyone may be comfortable with returning to activities in the current Covid-19 climate.

Kearney even goes as far as to say that some clubs may not make a return to action – and may not do so until the threat of Covid-19 has fully abated. “So, for us, that is a concern in that clubs may not be able to field for underlining reasons or whatever. We would have a lot of girls who would be nurses and they would be on the frontline.

“It is the same with those with an elderly or vulnerable person at home. There are a lot of people still worried. Never mind the frontline nurses, but you have players and mentors with asthma. So, how do you protect them? They will have to make their own decision if they play or not. Sadly, that is the way it is going to be. Those are the practicalities.”

As it stands, Galway Camogie Board is planning a return to championship action in the first week of August – albeit with a revised structure.

The 2020 model of the six Senior ‘A’ teams playing each other on a round-robin basis – as was also the case for the six Senior ‘B’ teams – has been abandoned in favour of a proposal whereby Senior ‘A’ would be split up into two groups of three, and Senior ‘B’ likewise.

The top two teams from Senior ‘B’ would then come into the championship, proper, at the quarter-final stage. Of course, this all has still to be rubberstamped by the clubs.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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