Burns: GAA may have to swallow ‘bitter pill’

ARMAGH Central Council delegate Jarlath Burns has voiced his opposition to managers being paid but concedes the GAA might have to swallow the “unpalatable bitter pill” of remunerating them to restore the Association’s integrity.

The 1999 Ulster SFC winning captain was acknowledged in the discussion paper for his contributions to it by the document’s author GAA Director General Páraic Duffy.

Burns is concerned county boards will vote against paying managers even though they have no intention of practising what they preach. He believes the Association have reached the last resort in their attempts to address managers’ unregulated payments and reluctantly admits the GAA may have to remunerate bosses.