Ladies footballers and camogie will play 'under protest' over lack of progress on welfare

The women of Ireland had no part in making the GAA what it is today? The misogyny is strong in the this one.

The GAA was a ground up organisation developed from communities all over the country. That society did not value female sport when the organisation developed is not the fault of players playing today. What the GAA is today is built on the entire society not just men

Yeah because the Mayo hurlers play with an organisation that has the funding and the gates from other matches allow it.

No cop on atall with their pricing and I will say it again going up against the biggest GAA games of the year.

The ladies bodies will be loving that statement with the men now putting pressure on for the GAA to open up the cheque book and bail out their sinking ships.

Absolutely 100% nail on the head.

Ask the men's team captains "do you support in principle the idea of female players having the same standard of facilities and benefits as you do?", and of course they're going to say yes.

Now put this to them: "would you and your team-mates accept a cut in the standard of facilities and benefits you currently get, so that some of these resources can be diverted to female players instead? Things affected may include travelling expenses, meals, overnight trips if travelling a long distance for a match, and playing gear."

Chances are you'd get a different answer.

Right, time for some figures. I've looked at the 2022 Financial Reports for all three associations.

• GAA distributed over €5 million under the heading "Team Costs" - €2.4 million in team expenses, €2 million in players' mileage, and €742,000 in players' nutrition. Individual County Boards would have had their own spending on top of that.
• Camogie Association report gives no corresponding heading or figure. Closest thing to it is a combined figure of just €104,000 for "Initiatives, Programmes, Grants & Player Welfare".
• LGFA doesn't give any directly corresponding figures for funding for inter-county teams either. But even if you give them the benefit of the doubt and say that every single cent of funding for Members Expenses (€48,000), Meetings/Meals/Accommoation (€163,000) and Footballs/Jerseys/Gear (€255,000) went to inter-county teams, that still a total of just €466,000.

Clear to see we're talking a shortfall of millions of euro per year before female players can get anything even close to what male players yet. And I repeat yet again that the two women's associations still have absolutely no proposals themselves on how to make up this shortfall.

Even if the GAA agreed to meet them halfway, they'd still have to come up with a few million euro themselves.

There is but they still haven't a clue how they can make up any shortfall.

Being honest they never will so if they come on board the GAA will have to take funding that goes to grass roots and infrastructure to give the ladies funding for there travel/nutrition etc.

Great weekend of action coming up next weekend in the Quarter finals of the LGFA All -Ireland Championships

Galway v Mayo; Pearse Stadium, Salthill

Armagh v Cork Box-It Athletic Grounds,

Kerry v Meath Austin Stack Park, Tralee,

Donegal v Dublin MacCumhaill Park, Ballybofey,

It's just a pity that there are big GAA games next weekend also. Only for TG4 these games would never see the light of day.

Honestly don't know what you're on about here, or why you're comparing the GAA to RTE and the FAI.

All I'll say is it's a spectacular display of naivety if you think there's sod all oversight of financial matters in the GAA, and that it's just a couple of bigwigs making arbitrary decisions on where money should go. I can only presume you're not involved in GAA administration in any way yourself, because if you were, you'd know how detailed the oversights are at every step of the way and at every level from club upwards.

I invite you to look for yourself to see how detailed the annual overall financial statements are. To get you started, the most recent one is available if you scroll to the bottom of this page: https://www.gaa.ie/news/gaa-report-healthy-financial-year/

Financial reports, auditors notes, etc., run from page 118 to page 254. It's the most detailed financial report of any sporting organisation I know, and certainly far more detailed than the FAI, LGFA, and Camogie Association.

Okay. Thanks for clarifying.

However, I don't think how the other associations would divvy out the money is in question. I suspect that if the slogan for the campaign (#UnitedforEquality) is to be taken literally, then they'd be looking to share it out in much or exactly the same way the GAA does. The main issue remains how or where this money is to come from in the first place.

Kilkenny not fully supporting their fellow players today but they have a history of that i guess

Ohhhh...

Are ooou from Cork boiiiii ??

Or worse again ..... a Tipp lad ?

its usually one of them ..

Unfortunate that they cut that clip off just as it seemed to be about to get interesting.....

True.

I was watching the games and thinking that to.

Why arent women supporting camogie and ladies GF , and yet they will go to mens games in their thousands?

Everyone knows a radio is useless in Windgap ......... 🙄

Pathetic 'prize' ....... 😣

And for an alternative view....the same Sarah Nell as above reckons that a radio is actually a better prize than the crystal glass:

"the GPA and its membership, male and female, want a charter that guarantees adequate medical, gym, nutrition and travel expenses in time for next season, irrespective of the talks."

Parson and the GPA still have no proposals over where the funding for all these extras is to come from, apart from a general "the GAA could pay for it". Nor has he specified which part of the GAA budget should be cut in order to fund these extras. Coaching and Games Promotion? Capital grants for club and county facilities? Funding for male players?

Which part of Peter does he want to rob to pay Paul?

They should be all the same organization, though, at one time they were, they are the same in all but name at everything except elite level,l especially within clubs, and will be again.

There can't be a situation where the lads are getting looked after and the women are out of pocket. That it was allowed get this far is a poor reflection on the GAA and the alphabet soup of other organizations. and the GPA for trying to pull the ladder up after themselves once the lads got brought into the tent in Croke Park.

Something like this happened with a camogie in Kerry. They had been using a GAA club. all football, for a few years when they started. The GAA club who only have one pitch said they couldn't accommodate them as there were too many using the pitch and was hard to keep up maintenance etc Camogie club then goes to the media saying they were trow out or words like that when it wasn't actually true at all.