GPA to take on GAA over image rights for PlayStation game

A STAND-OFF over image rights is brewing between the GAA and the GPA, following the announcement by Association President Sean Kelly yesterday of a planned Gaelic football game being developed for the Sony PlayStation 2.

The player’s body had been developing a similar game in conjunction with an indigenous multi-media company run by ex-Longford footballer, Frank McNamee, and a prototype had already been created.

However, Kelly’s announcement that contracts have been agreed between Sony Computer Entertainment Ireland, the GAA, and Melbourne-based IR Guns, to manufacture a Gaelic football game, looks like ending the GPA plan.