Kelly admits GPA talks ‘urgent’

GAA President Sean Kelly agrees that there is an urgency about the planned meeting with the Gaelic Players’ Association (GPA) which his successor Nickey Brennan has arranged for early in May.

Welcoming the decision of the players’ body not to strike, Mr Kelly said some form of protest was not unexpected. “I suppose that having gone to the brink, they had to do something,’’ he said.

Mr Kelly won’t be involved in the upcoming negotiations, explaining that Nickey Brennan had asked to be allowed deal with the matters that have arisen. “It’s only fair that he would be allowed. That would be the wish of everybody,’’ he said.