O’Neill says GAA could look for Olympic status

Ireland’s Olympic medal haul could be on the verge of multiplying, in the medium to long-term at least, if ambitious plans to introduce Gaelic games to the official list of included sports comes to pass.

GAA President Liam O’Neill believes plans already in the pipeline to initiate a World Cup of Gaelic games ‘would be a stepping stone to that [Olympic entry]’.

The idea may come across as fanciful, though anyone who attended yesterday’s intriguing and colourful launch of South Africa’s GAA grassroots development programme at Croke Park sensed the potential.