Gemma Begley wants 'common sense' GAA merger: 'We are all wearing the same jerseys, representing the same counties'

18 August 2018; Gemma Begley of Tyrone during the 2018 TG4 All-Ireland Ladies Intermediate Football Championship semi-final match between Sligo and Tyrone at Fr. Tierney Park in Donegal. Photo by Oliver McVeigh/Sportsfile

The day that the GAA finally merges with the Ladies Gaelic football and Camogie Associations will cause widespread weeping among those GAA correspondents who occasionally reached for it as column fodder, but on International Women’s Day there is a sense of impatience for Gemma Begley of the Women’s Gaelic Player’s Association.

The former Tyrone attacker simply cannot understand why everything is not under the one roof, an issue flagged up recently as a chief aim of new GAA President Larry McCarthy.