Cooney: Grassroots can make GAA stronger

THE strength of the GAA at grassroots level is what will ‘drive’ it forward into the future and enable it to become even stronger, said Association President Christy Cooney last evening.

He was speaking at the final celebration marking the foundation of the GAA in 1884, which was a commemoration of its second ever meeting, one which took place in the Victoria Hotel in Cork city centre and in the same room where Archbishop Croke’s famous letter was read for the first time exactly 125 years ago.

Symbolically, the attendance included Dr Dermot Clifford – the sixth Archbishop of Cashel (and Emly) to hold the position of GAA patron, as well as the Lord Mayor of Cork, Dara Murphy.