GAA held to account for lack of facilities

LAST Saturday more than 80,000 people crammed into the GAA headquarters at Croke Park to watch the Heineken Cup rugby semi-final between Munster and Leinster.

Croke Park nowadays hosts all the major soccer and rugby games, in addition to the GAA leagues and championships, pop concerts and various other events. The general public have no real idea of the vast sums all of this generates for the GAA, yet its local clubs all over the country are shamefully lacking basic equipment and even proper changing rooms.

The GAA hierarchy rakes in the money, but this fails to reach the grassroots of the association.

The GAA was founded to cater for aspiring young players and that’s the reason it continues today.

Perhaps, in this instance, the Croke Park authorities might let us know how much exactly was made from the Leinster v Munster game and how much of it will be go to supporting clubs all over the country – some of them in dire need of resources?

Pádraig Desmond

Timoleague

Bandon

Co Cork