Departing Cooney focus on payments to managers

Christy Cooney haspromised to delivera speech on thedivisive payments tomanagers issue in one of his last acts as GAApresident.

The Corkman will be officially succeeded by Liam O’Neill when Congress wraps up tomorrow evening at the Heritage Resort in Killenard, Co Laois.

In his last press briefing yesterday he predicted the two motions which will generate most debate this weekend will be the ones relating to the close season rule and the actual numbers of delegates who attend and vote at Congress each year.