Tommy Martin: What would electing Jim Gavin as president say about us?

The presidency is the ultimate honour for any Irish citizen, but maybe Jim Gavin is overqualified.

Jim Gavin watchse a GAA Football Review Committee trial game in Abbotstown. Pic: Dan Clohessy

It says something about Jim Gavin’s capabilities that the highest public office in the land might be a waste of his talents.

You can understand why some within Fianna Fáil, in search of viable candidates to represent the party in the upcoming presidential election, alighted on the name of the man who led Dublin to six All-Ireland football titles as manager, miraculously fixed Gaelic football as head of the FRC and, oh yeah, also managed to squeeze in a career as a senior Air Corps officer, trained commercial pilot and, latterly, chief operations officer of the Irish Aviation Authority.