GAA built by unpaid volunteers

MY work for the GAA includes coaching, attending meetings, scheduling games, booking fields, organising officials and marketing the games to new audiences. The time taken in the evenings and all of Sunday is considerable; there is no pay and I don’t always claim expenses back.

I do this for the satisfaction of helping my community and passing on an aspect of our culture that gets too little recognition abroad compared to our ignoble drunken reputation.

The GAA is built by people who don’t work for financial gain and without whom there would be no clubs or high profile inter-county championship.