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Fri 03 Mar 2007Young players' games schedule targetedPlayer welfare:With the GAA's new work group on player burnout about to be appointed, Croke Park's Player Welfare Officer Páraic Duffy has described the games' schedule of many young players as akin to "horror stories".Duffy will be a member of the work group set up to develop proposals to deal with the problems of over-use among players, especially vulnerable in their late teens and early 20s when they are eligible for a multiplicity of teams. "The brief," he says, "is to provide specific proposals to address the evidence of burnout among elite players in the age group 16-21. We're not looking at the issue, as there's more than enough evidence there.