Cork-born Larry McCarthy becomes GAA's first overseas member to be elected president

Cork-born Larry McCarthy was dramatically voted in as GAA president-elect after edging out Jarlath Burns in a fourth and final count, in doing so becoming the first overseas member to claim the office.

The Bishopstown man, an associate professor in New Jersey’s Seton Hall University and affiliated to the Sligo football club in New York, exceeded the quota by three votes with 142 after he received the majority of Leinster chairman Jim Bolger’s transfers. While Armagh man Burns received 17 more first preferences than McCarthy, the pair were tied at 110 votes after former Connacht chairman Mick Rock’s votes were distributed in the third count.