Duffy: We must tackle payment for managers

GAA Director General Páraic Duffy has warned the Association is heading towards professionalism if it doesn’t address the issue of unregulated payments to county and club managers.

The Monaghan man makes the stark prediction in his thoroughlycomprehensive discussion paper on the thorny subject, which was finally published by the GAA yesterday. As a means of controlling the slide, Duffy outlines two of three options in the paper, the latter the establishment of a system of paying managers.

As Duffy acknowledges in thepaper, that suggestion will “create the greatest apprehension among many members of the Association and that will surely be met with outright hostility and resistance by some”.