There's a busy weekend of club action in Antrim over the coming days but players from Ahoghill will be expected to put in double the work.
Based just outside Ballymena, the village of Ahoghill has both football and hurling GAA clubs, and both are in action this weekend.
Clooney Gaels (the hurling club) faces last year's All-Ireland runners-up Ruairí Óg, Cushendall in Ballymena on Saturday evening in the Antrim Senior Championship.
On Sunday, the village's footballers play Aldergrove's Naomh Seamus in a Division One clash. Both games take place in less than 24 hours, and 14 players are expected to start for both sides.
Speaking to the Irish News, the football manager Paul Bradley said their opponents on Sunday would not move the clash, despite requests to the County Board.
We have a sub for hurling that will start for the footballers, and one of the footballers doesn’t play hurling. That’s it.
Our chairman came to us two weeks ago and told us, and he has been pushing this with the county board since then. But we’ve been told we’re two different clubs and that it won’t be changed.
From a player welfare point of view, playing two big matches in that short timeframe isn’t what the GAA should be about.
With two games of such significance, you would have expected the Antrim County Board to have facilitated both teams in Ahoghill.
There will be sore legs on those players on Monday morning.
