Professionalism is unsustainable, says McGuinness

Jim McGuinness has insisted that fully fledged professionalism in the GAA would be unsustainable.

The ongoing increases in the amount of time and effort put in by counties such as Donegal in recent years has seen the amateur status of hurling and football’s finest come up for debate time and again but, for McGuinness, the numbers simply do not add up.

“If there were a sustainable model for remunerating the players whilst protecting the values of the association you’d have to look at it,” he said in an interview with Hot Press magazine.