Shooting from the hip

TIPPERARY farmer Sean Fogarty will, in two days time, contest the election to decide the next GAA president. He has been by far the most outspoken of the three on a range of topical issues, being highly critical of the GPA and strongly opposed to inter-county players getting government grant aid. He spoke with Jim O'Sullivan.

FOR all the talk about the government grants, player burn-out, the club/county debate and the state of hurling, Sean Fogarty doesn’t go beyond his own club, Moyne-Templetuohy to highlight what he sees as the main problem confronting the GAA.

However, far from being parochial, he identifies an issue which other leaders have expressed concern over, namely ‘the imbalance in population’ in the country. It’s something he believes has implications for society at large.