Future unclear for Tom Ryan and GAA’s long-term vision

Tom Ryan helped steer the GAA during the recession as the GAA's director of finance.

FUTURE: GAA director general Tom Ryan future is unclear as he enters the final six months of his seven-year contract. Picture: Ben McShane/Sportsfile

Next week, GAA director general Tom Ryan enters the last six months of his seven-year contract.

For a term in the most important administrative job in Irish sport to run down without a word about an extension is not odd: it wasn’t until a month before Páraic Duffy’s original seven-year agreement was to elapse in January 2015 that he accepted a new one offered by the GAA’s management committee.