GAA Congress: Incoming president will establish a new amateur status committee
Jarlath Burns became the 41st president of the GAA at annual congress in Newry on Saturday afternoon. In a wide-ranging inaugural address, he announced that he would establish a new amateur status committee, which he expects to propose significant changes to the budgets of intercounty teams.
“When we hand our team to the new manager, we do so in the full expectation that he is going to deliver – promotion, or a provincial title, or even an All-Ireland, and when it goes wrong, they get the blame. “Our players are no longer amateurs. Of course, like us, they don’t get paid for their efforts, but that’s where it ends. We have never properly stipulated what an amateur status looks like in the modern world. The last person to examine it was Peter Quinn back in 1996.
“I see myself as neither a football or hurling man, but a GAA man. I hail from south Armagh – hardly a hurling stronghold and it is not through any fault of my own, though a matter of considerable regret, that I never got the chance to play this amazing game.”
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