From Croke Park to Phoenix Park? Jim Gavin has tools for political football 

The GAA's Special Congress on October 4 will be one voting day Jim Gavin has circled in the calendar, could October 23 be another?

If Jim Gavin has a weakness as a presidential candidates, it is his obvious lack of political background. Pic:  Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Speaking in New Ross last Thursday evening, GAA president Jarlath Burns gave some insight into the prospective President of Ireland election candidate Jim Gavin.

Up to early part of this year, Burns had been touted as Sinn Féin’s man to run for the Áras but in opening the John F Kennedy Summer School he was happy to talk about the man he had charged with transforming Gaelic football.