Lack of bubble for GAA players a factor in losing 'elite' status

Minister of State for Sport Jack Chambers says GAA hadn't shown "a massive appetite” to return in immediate term 

The GAA’s director of communications Alan Milton has suggested the inability of inter-county players to bubble up was a factor in the GAA no longer being granted elite status under Level 5 restrictions, while Minister of State for Sport Jack Chambers has said there “wasn’t a massive appetite” among the GAA to return to on-field activity in the “immediate term”.

Speaking on Newstalk Breakfast this morning, GAA communications director Milton touched on the amateur status of GAA players and their inability to bubble up away from the community when addressing the Government decision to no longer allow GAA activity under Level 5 restrictions.