Hmmm.
Whilst a reversion by the LOI to winter football would help greatly in co-ordinating with the IL for Setanta purposes generally, I wonder whether the proponents of the July proposal bothered to ask their IL counterparts what they thought about that?
Since the IL is overwhelmingly part-time (and also because IL clubs do not prioritise European football so much as LOI clubs), many/most players take their holidays in July (also traditional for their "day-job" employers).
Also, July is smack-bang in the middle of the "Marching Season" - I can't see the PSNI being too happy to have to police football during that period, especially visits by LOI clubs across the border to NI (or from Derry for that matter, should they get promotion)
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