Kieran Shannon: As GPA achieve grant equality, other second-class athletes can’t be ignored

In addressing one form of inequality, Sports Minister Jack Chambers’ announcement yesterday has highlighted another. Some animals remain more equal than others and that animal is the GAA

Any bit of gender-equality legislation is to be welcomed. But it’d be even greater if Jack Chambers and the Government were to introduce the Irish equivalent of Title IX into Irish sport. Picture: Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland

Fair play to the GPA, they’ve nailed it again. 

This time 14 years ago the players’ body, then only representing the male inter-county game, was struggling to gain much affection and even credibility, at least with Paul Galvin anyway. He wasn’t even a member. “I don’t know what they’re doing,” he said. “They need to get a hold of an issue and nail it.”