All weekend’s hurling and football league games called off

All Allianz League games have been cancelled this weekend.

The GAA have finally moved to postpone Saturday and Sunday's fixtures as Storm Emma freezes the country. It means that the highly-anticipated clash between Dublin and Kerry at Croke Park on Saturday evening will be pushed back as the aim is to push all round five fixtures to the weekend of March 10/11.

"The GAA has confirmed that all Allianz Football and Hurling League fixtures scheduled for this weekend have been postponed," the statement read. "A full revised fixtures programme to cover the remaining rounds of the Allianz Leagues will be issued on Monday, March 5th."

The problem now is that there were due to be a full round of hurling fixtures this weekend before the quarter-finals next weekend, followed by the semis and then the final. But now the hurling final will be on the same weekend as the football final - if that's still able to go ahead on April 1. The problem with moving football league fixtures to the weekend of March 10 and 11 is that there are already knock on effects from the bad January weather which has seen games moved to those dates as they are - with the O'Byrne Cup still not taking place.

"For the moment, the following should be noted as broad principles: - Round 5 of the Allianz Hurling League will now take place next weekend (March 10th/11th) - The Division 1 Allianz Hurling League Quarter finals will move to the weekend of March 17th/18th, the semi-finals to the weekend of March 24th/25th and the Allianz Hurling League final to March 31st - Round 5 of the Allianz Football League - due to be played this weekend - will move to March 10th/11th "Any exceptions to the above will be addressed in the revised fixture programme to be issued on Monday."

It will be interesting to see what can be done now given that April is supposed to be free for clubs. Main image via @CrokePark.