Entreprenuer Maher all business before Dubs-Galway tie

Four days out for the start of the Littlewoods Ireland Camogie League and Dublin have the daunting task of hosting All-Ireland champions Galway at... TBC.

As the time of writing (Tuesday), TBC is down to host a large number of games in the first weekend of camogie's national league.

For the unaware, TBC is not the name of some facility attached to a technological university somewhere on the outskirts of Dublin but stands for the acronym 'To be confirmed'. Meaning we don't yet know where the games will be played and nor do the players involved.

For Dublin's Aisling Maher, it does highlight the problems caused by the continued separation between women's Gaelic Games and their male counterparts - the GPA recently calling for merger talks to be accelerated, a call echoed by numerous women's football and camogie players.

"I would love to be able to tell where our game is on Saturday but I don't know," Maher told RTÉ Sport at the AIG media event to mark the launch of Dublin's season across four codes.

"Now, that's not to say that message hasn't been conveyed but it hasn't been confirmed anyway.

"That's a huge issue, (a) for us as players, I don't know in my head where that game is going to be. From a sports psychology, visualisation perspective, that's a challenge.

"But on top of that, you want to be encouraging clubs to be bringing young kids out, you want to be encouraging younger teams to go out to this.

"The feasibility aspect of a club to organise an U10 team to go to a match where they don't know the venue, those challenges speak for themselves.

"It's not anybody's fault in that the Camogie Association don't have access to one specific ground.

"I know some counties are getting to the point where they can put in camogie dedicated