Any other chaotic GAA stories?

Lads Ive just gone down a bit of a rabbit hole and I swear early GAA was absolute chaos 😂

So in 1888 the All-Ireland football championship basically just… fell apart mid-way through... No big final, no proper ending, nothin...

From what I make out, the GAA sent a load of players off to America on some fundraising tour....Grand idea in fairness, but it basically nuked the championship because half the counties lost their best lads halfway through...Fixtures started collapsing, teams couldnt field sides properly, and the whole thing just fizzled out...

And the mad bit — Limerick were later “awarded” the title even though there wasnt really a proper final or anything like what we’d call a championship today. More like a “ah sure ye were still standing at the end” type of decision...

Its gas thinking about it because were so used to the All-Ireland being this ultra-organised, sacred thing now, but back then it sounds like half sporting competition, half organised chaos, half lads missing because they were in New York trying to sell hurling to Americans 😅

Anyway, anyone else come across mad early GAA stories like that? Feels like theres load of stuff from the early years that never really gets talked about...