Cooney: GAA-GPA agreement ready in February

GAA president Christy Cooney says there is no serious reason for the delay in the official GAA-GPA agreement. The new five-year deal was supposed to have been signed off before October 31 but now won’t be unveiled until early next year.

“We’re just finalising the document now and I expect that’ll be before our management committee in January. It’ll be put before Central Council next month and then out to the counties, so I expect by February that it will be approved and moved on a five-year situation and that’s the intention. There’s nothing sinister in any delay.”

There has also been a delay in the publication of GAA Director General Páraic Duffy’s discussion paper on payments to managers, which is believed to have been circulated to members of the Association’s management committee over the weekend.