Duffy commends GPA
Monday November 23 2009
The GPA leadership's willingness to embrace the GAA's amateur ethos was crucial in seeing the official status of the players' body incorporated into rule at next year's Congress, GAA Director-General Paraic Duffy has revealed.
"It is very important to make the point that, from the very beginning of the talks, the GPA made it clear that they were willing to accept that,'' he commented.
"They understood that was the way forward for the GAA - we didn't have to push for it," he said.
"From the very start they offered it to us, that this was the way forward - that they want to be primarily a body that can provide top-class player welfare and that they accept the amateur status of the GAA."
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