The Irish Times6d
Gaelic Players Association’s support of amateur status cannot be guaranteed, Parsons warns
The Gaelic Players Association’s (GPA) support of amateur status cannot be guaranteed in the future, the associations chief executive Tom Parsons has said. Parsons issued the warning at the ...
The Irish Times6d
Gaelic Players Association flags resistance to ‘stretching’ intercounty season
The Gaelic Players Association say any proposals to move the All-Ireland finals to August would necessitate a later start to the intercounty season. And the players' body is firmly against ...
Independent.ie4d
Special GAA investigation – counties running deficits doubles in 2024 with rising team costs causing deep concern
Early on Wednesday morning, the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) published a report researched during 2023 that came to the conclusion that playing Gaelic games at inter-county level now cost the ...
Independent.ie6d
Tom Parsons threatens professionalism if players’ costs aren’t addressed
The GPA (Gaelic Players Association) has blamed the economic cost of playing inter-county football, hurling and camogie as a reason why membership backing for amateur status is starting to slide.
RTE Online6d
Report commissioned by the GPA exposes financial losses incurred by inter-county players
The Gaelic Players Association is calling for an increase in Government grants as it is concerned that its members' contribution to the economy comes at a significant personal expense. A report ...
The Irish News6d
GPA report on cost to players should be taken with a bucket of salt
This morning, the Gaelic Players’ Association took its biggest step into the shiny world of big numbers that nobody can question. Inter-county players, it tells us, contribute €591m in ...
The Irish News6d
All-Star Niall Morgan says some Tyrone players are ‘genuinely struggling with the financial side of things’
Morgan doubles as co-chair of the Gaelic Players Association and, worryingly, said that there are players on the Tyrone squad currently who are ‘genuinely struggling with the financial side of ...
Irish Examiner6d
County players becoming less content with GAA's amateur status
Players chief Tom Parsons has revealed that support for the GAA's amateur ethos among inter-county players is dropping year on year. Just 59% of players responded that they were 'content with the ...
Irish Examiner6d
Players on Tyrone panel 'genuinely struggling with the financial side' of being an inter-county player
Niall Morgan said if he was starting out as an inter-county player now, the financial cost would force him to push back his Tyrone career for several years. Tyrone goalkeeper Niall Morgan ...
GPA report on cost to players should be taken with a bucket of salt
WHEN Facebook released its annual report in late 2014, its authors Deloitte had magicked up a claim that its “global economic ...
extra3d
GPA need to read the room – taxpayers should not be funding more grants
How very 2005. It’s been a while since the Gaelic Players Association wielded the threat of professionalism, and it triggered a Proustian shiver of memory to hear its leader resurrect that old ghost.