Loans ‘burdening’ clubs
“The economic problems of the country continue to impact on the GAA,” warns Kildare secretary Kathleen O’Neill in her report for the county convention at the K Club Hotel in Straffan on Saturday.
“Financial assistance and sponsorship is proving much more difficult to achieve. Because most clubs in Kildare took advantage of the Celtic Tiger era and either improved existing facilities or built new ones, the burden of paying the loans is impacting on them. The biggest danger that I see is that clubs will become so obsessed with financial matters that football and hurling and playing and coaching the skills of the games will take a very poor second place.
