Neil Ewing: Outside the box thinking required in GAA to avoid demographics catastrophe

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Benny Hurl, who chairs the GAA’s Demographics Committee, has painted a stark picture of the challenges facing the GAA in the years and decades to come. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

WEDNESDAY'S Irish Examiner article with Benny Hurl, who chairs the GAA’s Demographics Committee, painted a stark picture of the challenges facing the GAA in the years and decades to come.

Hurl said the GAA was “sleepwalking into something that’s going to be catastrophic” if it ignores population trends.