Farrell: we’d keep sponsors

THE GPA’s annual income from its commercial tie-ins with ‘partners’ such as Energise Sport, Opel and Halifax amounts to approximately €900,000 per annum.

Chief executive Dessie Farrell has also revealed that the 5% of the GAA’s gross income which the players’ body is seeking — which amounted to €2m last year — would be in addition to this independently sourced finance.