Power not pay the real issue, Nickey

AWAY for just one week, come home to turmoil. Scandal, revealed by GAA president Nickey Brennan, inter-county managers getting filthy lucre for doing what every proud and decent GAA person should be happy to do for nothing.

We’re on the road to perdition, surely — ah Nickey, where will it all end? When he was first announced as the new GAA president-elect, I had high hopes that Nickey Brennan would be the perfect man to succeed Seán Kelly — an energetic, modern reformer to continue where the talented Kerryman had left off.

Over several years, I had often come across Nickey, was impressed by him every time, by his efficiency, his professionalism, his recognition particularly of the important role played by the modern media.