Colin Sheridan: Smaller counties the big winners from JP McManus' €32m gift
The conditionality of the donations — that the funds be distributed evenly to GAA, Camogie and Ladies Football clubs within each county — should be bittersweet music for county board executive officers.
JP McManus: Donated €1m to all 32 county boards across the island. Picture: Healy Racing
A win for the little man. Perhaps for the first time in the GAA's 140 year history, less finally means more.
As news of JP McManus’s €32m donation to GAA boards was dissected like a box of Celebrations last evening, the realisation hit that the smaller counties - your Carlows, Louths and Leitrims - stood to benefit most from the Limerick billionaires generosity.
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