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The GAA must take a different approach to 2021
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When is an elite player not an elite player? Well, that s the question the GAA community have been asking each other over the last week.
With inter-county squads, who prepare extremely diligently, not deemed as elite any more, it saw a new ruling preventing the GAA season – unless there is a u-turn - to begin until at least Easter.
GAA director general Tom Ryan admits that the Allianz Leagues are in danger of not being played but says that it is too soon to reveal the association's fall-back plans.
Delay offers GAA stars rare chance to rest and rebuild
Updated / Tuesday, 16 Feb 2021
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RTÉ Sport Journalist
Last week s announcement that the return to inter-county GAA training has been further delayed caused shockwaves around the country.
While managers and fans debated the expiration of Gaelic games elite sport exemptions from Level 5 Covid-19 restrictions, players may have been left wondering what now? .
The All-Ireland senior hurling championship finished on 13 December and Dublin completed six in a row in football a week later.
Panels expected to be back in collective training by 15 January, for a league start at the end of February, but the impact of the third wave of the pandemic in Ireland led the GAA to postpone training until March and, most recently, Easter.