Cooney joins Brennan in race for GAA top job

EX-MUNSTER Council chairman Christy Cooney will be a candidate for the GAA Presidency in 2005, in which he will go head-to-head with current Leinster chairman and former Kilkenny hurling star Nicky Brennan.

Cooney, a native of Youghal, Co. Cork and an executive with FÁS, went public yesterday in response to media speculation.

He confirmed in a statement that he had been approached about standing in the last election, when Sean Kelly was successful. At the time, he had finished his term as chairman of the Munster Council.