Is GPA now the voice of managers?

When pushed on it afterwards, Aogán Ó Fearghail insisted he was referring to himself more than anybody else, writes John Fogarty.

Yet there was something uncannily familiar about the new GAA president’s mention of elitism in his inaugural speech in Congress on Saturday. “In the GAA, there should be no elites,” he said.

“No group, whether you’re the president of the GAA or a fantastic county footballer, or whether you’re the man who mows the grass... no group should feel ‘you’re the special one’. The chosen one. “There are absolutely no elites in the GAA.”