'Lock the leadership in a hotel for a weekend': Integration process 'glacially slow' says Kevin O'Donovan

"It's so important to me," said O'Donovan about the merger of the GAA, Camogie Association and LGFA. "I would lock the leadership in a hotel for a weekend and say we'll see you Monday morning."

Steering Committee Chairperson Mary McAleese speaking during a 2024 update on the integration process involving the Camogie Association, the GAA and LGFA, at Croke Park in Dublin. Photo by Sam Barnes/Sportsfile

Cork GAA CEO Kevin O'Donovan believes that the integration process between the Camogie Association, GAA and LGFA is moving at a "glacially slow" pace and that some drastic intervention may be required. O'Donovan called himself a "zealot" on the matter. 

"If I had a say, I'd shut down the GAA for the weekend and lock the leadership into a room," he said, "like you would for a government bailout and say 'you're not coming out on Sunday night until you've formed a new GAA'.