Pay provinces to end pre-season competitions, says Gaelic Players Association chief executive

GPA chief executive officer Tom Parsons speaking during a GPA post AGM media briefing at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Dublin Airport, Dublin. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

The GAA’s Central Council should financially compensate provincial councils to convince them to abandon pre-season competitions, says Gaelic Players Association (GPA) chief executive Tom Parsons.

At their agm in Portlaoise on Saturday, the GPA again endorsed the disbandment of the likes of the McGrath, McKenna, O’Byrne and Walsh Cups and the Connacht Football and Munster Hurling Leagues that usually take in January.