President laments ‘cult of manager’

GAA president Liam O’Neill has launched a remarkable broadside against inter-county managers, claiming they wield too much power.

While also criticising Dr Danny Mulvihill for his comments on the association’s new sideline regulations, O’Neill revealed he would prefer to see the GAA follow rugby’s example and counties appoint managers and coaches.

Hitting out against managers for their growing habit of releasing dummy teams, O’Neill said it is a type of behaviour symptomatic of their disregard for the organisation as a whole.