Seán Fogarty on the GPA: ‘We have created a monster and now we have to feed him’

The “lavishness” of the GPA’s new funding agreement has been queried by a former leading GAA official while another believes the official players body is “a monster” that has to be fed.

The GPA could make as much as €7.5 million per annum starting from next year, more than the €6.2m than they are guaranteed to receive from the GAA.

Danny Lynch, who was GAA PRO between 1988 and 2007, has questioned why Croke Park would agree to hand over 15% of all its commercial revenue to the GPA, which could come to as much as €3.5m from next year because of the new round of media rights. The GPA will receive at the very minimum €2.5m from the sector, which also incorporates francishing and licensing.