GPA want accountability for inter-county training breaches

'There needs to be consequences on management, county board and players – whether it be home advantage, points deduction in the league' - Tom Parsons

ACCOUNTABILITY: GPA chief executive officer Tom Parsons, centre, alongside GPA national executive committee co-chairperson Maria Kinsella and GPA head of finance and operations Ciarán Barr during a media briefing of the association's AGM and 2021 Annual Report Highlights at the Radisson Blu Hotel at Dublin Airport in Dublin. Pic: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

The Gaelic Players Association (GPA) want inter-county managers and county boards as well as players to be answerable for inter-county training breaches.

The official inter-county players body succeeded in convincing the GAA to bring forward the collective training return date to November 24. They would have proposed a December one but unsuccessfully lobbied for the disbandment of pre-season competitions.