Dawn breaks on ‘a new GAA’

THE seismic change of policy at Congress on ‘ownership’ of Croke Park didn’t just bring the sharply differing views on Rule 42 into focus - it revealed a “new GAA”, according to Director-General Liam Mulvihill.

He said the association was very different now from the one which 34 years ago in Belfast accepted that the ban on playing and attendance ‘foreign games’ had outlived its usefulness.

“It’s hard to compare because times are different,” claimed Mr Mulvihill. “But the GAA has changed an awful lot over that period. We’re not really talking about the same GAA anymore.”