If it’s not broken, don’t fix it, is Longford view

Longford will be the only county in Ireland who want nothing done on the issue of payments to inter-county managers.

County board delegates spoke strongly in favour of option one in GAA director general Páraic Duffy’s payments to managers discussion paper, which is to accept the status quo.

They strongly oppose the idea outlined in option two, which could see an audit and registration committee given access to managers’ PPS and National Insurance numbers. A Longford official said the message being conveyed from the county is they have nothing to hide from the Revenue and neither should other counties.