GAA chiefs divided over 2021 season plan

GAA president John Horan and director of club, player and games administration Feargal McGill wholeheartedly support the county-first approach

Ard Stiúrthóir of the GAA Tom Ryan pitchside at Croke Park in Dublin after a remote media briefing announcing the 2020 GAA Annual Report and Financial Accounts. Picture: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Croke Park chiefs are divided over whether the inter-county season - or club - will start the 2021 GAA calendar.

As GAA director of finance Ger Mulryan yesterday called for the organisation to revise the plans to start with the county first so that the organisation could possibly reap gate receipts later in the year, director general Tom Ryan maintained the delay to the season is not a major financial benefit and county first remains the policy for now.