John Fogarty: Gaelic Players Association and its vision deserve more respect

Readers of this column know what they can find here is a long-term and, we hope, healthy scepticism of the Gaelic Players Association (GPA).

There is little love here for the Super 11s — hurling is hurling — nor their exercise every autumn of putting the cap in hand in front of US-based expats who are easy marks and are already being tapped by their counties. For a 32-county organisation, Dublin still seems to benefit too much from the GPA’s work. If that is more perception than reality, they only have themselves to blame.