O’Neill: get back to ‘real amateurs’

TOP GAA official Liam O’Neill believes that the economic downturn facing counties and clubs will provide an opportunity to stop playing ‘ridiculous expenses to team managers’.

He said officials could plead ‘an inability to play’ and get back to a situation of having teams coached by ‘real amateurs.

“It could do a lot to revitalise our Association and end the involvement of those mercenaries who, while pretending that they have our interests at heart, clearly value themselves time more highly than those they claim to serve.’’