Gpa Still Trying to Justify Its Raison d'Etre After 10 Years ; Maverick Group has Achieved Its Original Goals, so What's Left ? [Eire Region]
Mail on Sunday › February 22, 2009
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AS THE media briefing wound up in Hayes' Hotel last Saturday, GAA president Nickey Brennan invoked the spirit of the association's founding fathers in a proud, off-the-cuff speech. A mere 125 years after that landmark first meeting, he spoke of Michael Cusack and Maurice Davin and how humbled he was to be walking in their 'footsteps' and how 'they hardly envisaged the press conference here today and the sort of topics we talked about'. How could they? After all, Central Council's agenda was tailored to an eclectic mix of sporting tastes. An application by the IRFU for Croke Park to host a Heineken Cup semi-final, granted without the need for a vote. International Rules under floodlights at the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick. Agreement to play next month's interprovincial hurling final in Abu Dhabi.
Oh, and the not so small matter of the civil war currently raging in Cork.See the full content of this document
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Gpa Still Trying to Justify Its Raison d'Etre After 10 Years ; Maverick Group has Achieved Its Original Goals, so What's Left ? [Eire Region]
But this year also marks the anniversary of another milestone meeting in a hotel by a group of men that served to change the GAA landscape.
Ten years ago, the Gaelic Players Association was officially launched in the Wellington Park Hotel in Belfast.The brainchild of sports marketing guru Donal O'Neill, a nephew of Down legend Sean, the top ta...See the full content of this document
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