Colin Sheridan: Less or more comms? GAA and FAI could learn from each other

How hard is it - especially when you have a reputation for getting this stuff so disastrously wrong - to ensure that whatever your message is, it’s properly communicated to the appropriate people by the correct person, before being made public? 

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: New head coach Carla Ward and FAI Interim CEO David Courell. Pic: INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

To speak, or not to speak, that’s the question, this week at least. Whenever I consider it, I’m reminded of a scene in Goodfellas when Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci and Ray Liotta’s conflicted character Henry Hill pay a late-night visit to Pesci’s mom (played by director Martin Scorsese's mother). 

“What’s the matter Henry, you don’t talk too much,” the old lady teases Liotta, before regaling the table with the story of a guy back home in Italy who reminds her of Henry, because of his quiet nature. “When we were kids, Campari's (friends) used to visit one another, and there was this man, and he’d just sit there all night and not say a word. So, his wife says to him, 'what’s the matter, Campari, don’t you talk? Don't you say anything?' And he says to them 'what am I gonna say? My wife two-times me?' So, she says to him 'shut up, you’re always talking'.”