GAA gender balance on the menu - without being forced down anyone's throat

'I’m all for gender balance for the right reasons and she has worked her way up from club and county. She's there for the work she’s done and willing to do and not just there because she’s a woman'

CONGRESS CALL: GAA President Larry McCarthy and DG Tom Ryan

It’s with hope that two of the GAA’s leading female administrators look forward to Saturday’s Special Congress gender balance motion in Croke Park. But with trepidation too.

Being pushed to do something that, on the surface appears progressive, for monetary reasons is never a good feel or look. But that is the stick the Government is threatening to beat the GAA with if they and other sports organisations don’t achieve 40% gender balance on their governing committees by the end of the year.