Jul 11

€3.5 into €1 Won’t Go For GPA

Talking Balls Comments
The hurlers of Tyrone and Donegal - just the same as the men with the big balls. Or are they?
The hurlers of Tyrone and Donegal - just the same as the men with the big balls. Or are they?
So then. When Dessie met Martin, Martin told Dessie that instead of the €3.5million that was available for the GPA last year there is now only €1million and that only for the top eight hurling teams and the top twelve football teams.

Try telling the hurlers of Tyrone, Carlow or Meath after yesterday’s heroics in Croker, or indeed the vanquished players of Donegal, Down and London, that their efforts are somehow lesser than those of their more illustrious colleagues in the upper echelons of the GAA.

Martin Cullen and his merry men obviously went to the table with the GPA with their stupid offer deliberately knowing what would happen. Does a gallon of fuel or a a bottle of water cost a different amount in Kilkenny depending on whether you are Eddie Brennan the hurler or his namesake the footballer? Is the effort any less for the Tyrone hurlers and the Tyrone footballers. There is every likelihood the Tyrone hurlers may be the only Tyrone team to win an All Ireland title in Croker this summer.

So Martin Cullen and the boys obviously were trying to smoke out Dessie, Donal Og and whoever they brought to the meeting.

One things for sure, between them the respective parties need to stave off the possible nuclear option that has been referred to and about which we wrote last time.

In the meantime, well done to the winners in Croker yesterday, it’s only fitting they got their day in the sun.