GPA fire warning shots as battle looms with Croker authorities over expenditure issues

It was never really about the report. Nowhere in GAA director-general Tom Ryan’s annual offering was there a criticism of the Gaelic Players Association (GPA). Nowhere in those 60 pages was there a mention or a scintilla of evidence that the GAA consider the inter-county players’ body ‘a problem child’.

The suggestion that the GPA had put forward a strawman argument with their statement Wednesday evening was only strengthened by their condemnation of Ryan’s warning about unsustainable expenditure on inter-county teams. “It is disappointing to see that it is the so-called unsustainable costs of those inter-county games commanding such a share of the GAA’s attention,” noted GPA CEO Paul Flynn.