Cahair O’Kane: Minor madness has to be curtailed if return to U18 is to make sense

TYRONE minors played their first game this year on March 4.Three days earlier, the first round of club minor league games took place in the county.The clubs at grade one played 11 games between March 1 and May 10.They didn’t kick another ball for eight weeks. Tyrone’s run to the All-Ireland minor final took precedence.The engines of hundreds of testosterone-filled teenage footballers sat on idle.A report in The Irish Examiner last week indicated that there is another push coming from Munster over the underage grades at inter-county level.Of all the failed experiments, none have gone as badly as the GAA’s attempts over the last decade to change minor from U18 to U17.Changing the inter-county game back would be the final piece in the puzzle.On paper, it looks a pretty straightforward decisio