John Fogarty: It will take more than rules to end GAA respect crisis

CULTURE CHANGE: GPA chief executive officer Tom Parsons and GPA national executive committee co-chairperson Maria Kinsella during a media briefing of the association's AGM and 2021 Annual Report Highlights at the Radisson Blu Hotel at Dublin Airport in Dublin. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

How to change a culture?

That’s the conundrum facing GAA officials right now as they wonder how exactly the organisation’s general attitude towards referees can be upgraded from tolerance to respect.