Christy Cooney haspromised to delivera speech on thedivisive payments tomanagers issue in one of his last acts as GAApresident.

Revelations of the precarious1 state of Waterford finances has sent shockwaves through the GAA. So how are county boards battling the recession? Brendan O’Brien looked at the model used by tomorrow’s Leinster’s quarter-finalists, Laois.