Shorter season having no impact as GAA back on commercial track

The shortened Championship season has had no financial impact on the GAA at all.

At the GAA Annual Report Launch is GAA director of finance Ger Mulryan at Croke Park in Dublin. Picture: Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

AMID all of the talk of what might have been, Katie Taylor, or what might be, an All-Ireland Club Football Final rematch, a wave of actual certainties dominated the GAA’s release of its financial statements for 2022.

For the first time since the release of its 2019 report, the Association was back in business and talking big bucks again, particularly in the fields of commercial, hospitality and sponsorship, where €100m in revenues flowed into the GAA.