The Club Players Association is seeking a meeting with both chairman and director general of the GAA to express its “anger and frustration” on behalf of Roscommon GAA over its failed motion for a ‘blank canvas’ approach to fixture making.

Last week CPA Chairman Micheál Briody called on all Central Council delegates to support a Roscommon motion that an immediate review is conducted of the GAA national games programme.

After the motion was defeated at Central Council last Saturday, GAA President John Horan invited Roscommon to submit its own proposals with regard to fixture making for consideration.

The Association is set to conduct its own review of fixtures next summer, with a CPA representative set to take part in the process.

The Roscommon Club Players Association have released the following statement in regards to the matter:

“We are utterly disgusted and disappointed at what we believe is a clear sign of contempt by our main governing body for a Motion deliberated, discussed and passed by the clubs of Roscommon at a time of great concern over the GAA’s fixtures crises.

“We can only draw the conclusion that those who lead the organisation have lost touch with the Association’s grassroots members who want a games schedule that will bring regularity and certainty to GAA fixtures at both club and inter-county levels.

“We are seeking an urgent meeting with An Uachtarán CLG and An Ard Stiúrthóir Tom Ryan to express our anger and frustration on behalf of Roscommon GAA. We believe we are due that courtesy as long-standing GAA members with years of service as unpaid volunteers.

“Bringing this motion followed hours of work, discussion and meetings, all done to observe the GAA’s democratic structures.

“Officialdom should get on the togs and try running their lives, family, work, social events, weddings, christenings and holidays amidst the chaos that is the GAA’s fixtures schedule.

“All that shows a most disappointing lack of respect both for ordinary G.A.A. members and for the democratic process. This tells us clearly that the Association is fast becoming a corporate elitist body whose leaders have lost sight of the G.A.A.’s central ethos; a community based Gaelic games and culture organization with the club at its very core.”

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