Dermot Earley reveals his plans for the GPA

Incoming GPA chief executive Dermot Earley believes the organisation is misunderstood and is determined to rectify the disconnect.

Earley will take up his new position on February 6 with a handful of clear intentions, one of them to better inform the public of the work the official inter-county players body does for their members.

He acknowledges that the perception of the GPA isn’t as healthy as he would like it to be. “It hasn’t got out to the wider GAA public on exactly what we do. I suppose the challenge for me is to get that message out, while I’ve taken over in my new role, exactly what the services are we provide here for the inter-county player. I think a lot of people actually don’t understand the workings of the internal staff here of the GPA and the benefits of the programmes that we have here, so that’s a big challenge for me.