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Nialls Travels from Monaghan has the best account for discussing football and life. He talks facts and was giving corduff the guff was correct as they crossed the line vs carick. His recommendations on recent holiday destinations was very interesting and insightful. Hopefully WeAreMonghan or Clubber get him on soon as I think Sunday game or Gaa+ will be looking him next as his opinions very thoughtful and always correct.
GAAFAN1234512345 (Monaghan) - Posts: 67 - 03/09/2026 15:47:47
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Great piece from Neil Ewing
Millions of € going into the pocket of "amateur" GAA managers each year.
Millions of € that could be invested in facilities, or used by clubs to develop their own coaches.
Is it time to stop pretending the GAA is amateur?
Kew (Galway) - Posts: 427 - 12/09/2026 10:42:50
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Replying To Kew: "Great piece from Neil Ewing
Millions of € going into the pocket of "amateur" GAA managers each year.
Millions of € that could be invested in facilities, or used by clubs to develop their own coaches.
Is it time to stop pretending the GAA is amateur?" You do know players & management are entitled to legitimate expenses which can add up to significant amounts? Outside management teams are allowed to claim expenses, it's hardly a secret that these amounts could run into thousands a month. And if you knew anything about the conversations being held within the GAA, there's active movement to try and reduce those expenses by insisting counties engage people within their own counties to manage teams. Lets not exaggerate the position.
Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 2451 - 12/09/2026 15:04:35
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Replying To Square_B: "You do know players & management are entitled to legitimate expenses which can add up to significant amounts? Outside management teams are allowed to claim expenses, it's hardly a secret that these amounts could run into thousands a month. And if you knew anything about the conversations being held within the GAA, there's active movement to try and reduce those expenses by insisting counties engage people within their own counties to manage teams. Lets not exaggerate the position." I dont know much about these dealings,but are you saying that whatever money gaa managers get paid is ALL expenses?
Honestly i dont know for a fact but id be shocked if there wasn't an extra few bob thrown in as a sweetener.
The fact that outside managers are common within the gaa would suggest clubs and counties would be vying for their expertise (caveat emptor comes to mind), and if one of them has the resources to throw a brown envelope around they wouldn't be above using it.
Seniorleague (Galway) - Posts: 333 - 12/09/2026 18:12:07
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Replying To Kew: "Great piece from Neil Ewing
Millions of € going into the pocket of "amateur" GAA managers each year.
Millions of € that could be invested in facilities, or used by clubs to develop their own coaches.
Is it time to stop pretending the GAA is amateur?" Here's a thing about former players who people feel should be listened to because, well, because they're former players "who know what they're talking about".
If you were one such former player yourself, would you:
a) get involved at administrative level to try effect the change you apparently feel so strongly about,
or
b) go write about it for a newspaper column that you get paid for, and then when that change doesn't happen, write another column sometime saying "I've already called for ......", and then get paid again?
Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 4052 - 12/09/2026 21:11:29
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Replying To Seniorleague: "I dont know much about these dealings,but are you saying that whatever money gaa managers get paid is ALL expenses?
Honestly i dont know for a fact but id be shocked if there wasn't an extra few bob thrown in as a sweetener.
The fact that outside managers are common within the gaa would suggest clubs and counties would be vying for their expertise (caveat emptor comes to mind), and if one of them has the resources to throw a brown envelope around they wouldn't be above using it." If there's an extra few bob being thrown around, it's not the GAA giving it out. The Revenue Commissioners is catching up with county boards all round the country and a number of them have made voluntary disclosures in the last number of years. There's never been more scrutiny of expenses. Any county still fiddling around with expenses are playing a very foolish game.
As for expenses itself, if a lad was travelling 200 mile round trips 4 times a week (which a few managers would be at), that amount is going to add up quickly at 70c a mile. They'd be also entitled to expense any meals they have on county business, a phone, accommodation if needed. These amounts add up quickly. And then repeat that for other members of the management team.
Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 2451 - 13/09/2026 10:53:11
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Replying To Pikeman96: "I don't propose to go into all the ins and outs of the RTE payments scandal. I was just answering your fundamental question, that there's nothing to actually stop an employee from leaving that employment and becoming a self-employed contractor instead, even if they still solely do work for the same organisation, if both sides agree to that new arrangement.
Nor do I propose to get into speculation as to why one side would agree to that, if it was likely to cost them more or otherwise be less beneficial for them. Again, was just answering the question that there's nothing to prevent if from happening." https://businessplus.ie/news/evanne-ni-chuilinn-paid-as-a-presenter-rte/
Senator Evanne Ni Chuilinn provides some insight during a recent Oirechtas RTE hearings, as a former RTE employee she had first hand recent experience of the structures. By her descriptions, people start at RTE as PAYE employees, and its only if a person is classified as presenter that they become "Contracted" as presenters for significant increased pay and benefits.
In my industry, engineers and Scientists etc tend to remain as PAYE for full duration of careers, they don't transition to contracted once above a certain pay threshold to the best of my knowledge. It's an interesting one.
Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1962 - 14/09/2026 10:04:09
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If there's an extra few bob being thrown around, it's not the GAA giving it out. The Revenue Commissioners is catching up with county boards all round the country and a number of them have made voluntary disclosures in the last number of years. There's never been more scrutiny of expenses. Any county still fiddling around with expenses are playing a very foolish game.
As for expenses itself, if a lad was travelling 200 mile round trips 4 times a week (which a few managers would be at), that amount is going to add up quickly at 70c a mile. They'd be also entitled to expense any meals they have on county business, a phone, accommodation if needed. These amounts add up quickly. And then repeat that for other members of the management team.
Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 2433 - 13/09/2026 10:53:11
The Revenue needs to be overhauled in Ireland. Taxation across the board is very high, and yet the National Debt is set to increase by 10 billion this decade, which doesn't shock me with how much money is wasted each year.
Our perceived freedom is gradually eroding away in the name of "Suspected Criminal Money laundering", where they are trying to eliminate the use of cash, as digital transfers can be 100% monitored. I personally think that once we pay our income tax at source, we should be exempt from all monitoring.
Ireland is also one of the most unattractive places to be based if investing in the Stock, Investment funds etc due to taxation on ETFs etc, so heavy handed, it obstructs bringing money into the Country from abroad.
Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1962 - 15/09/2026 13:24:21
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Replying To Commodore: "If there's an extra few bob being thrown around, it's not the GAA giving it out. The Revenue Commissioners is catching up with county boards all round the country and a number of them have made voluntary disclosures in the last number of years. There's never been more scrutiny of expenses. Any county still fiddling around with expenses are playing a very foolish game.
As for expenses itself, if a lad was travelling 200 mile round trips 4 times a week (which a few managers would be at), that amount is going to add up quickly at 70c a mile. They'd be also entitled to expense any meals they have on county business, a phone, accommodation if needed. These amounts add up quickly. And then repeat that for other members of the management team.
Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 2433 - 13/09/2026 10:53:11
The Revenue needs to be overhauled in Ireland. Taxation across the board is very high, and yet the National Debt is set to increase by 10 billion this decade, which doesn't shock me with how much money is wasted each year.
Our perceived freedom is gradually eroding away in the name of "Suspected Criminal Money laundering", where they are trying to eliminate the use of cash, as digital transfers can be 100% monitored. I personally think that once we pay our income tax at source, we should be exempt from all monitoring.
Ireland is also one of the most unattractive places to be based if investing in the Stock, Investment funds etc due to taxation on ETFs etc, so heavy handed, it obstructs bringing money into the Country from abroad." That's great, not sure what it has to do with my post unless of course you're suggesting that Revenue shouldn't be scrutinising these expenses?
Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 2451 - 16/09/2026 11:18:14
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Replying To Square_B: " Replying To Commodore: "If there's an extra few bob being thrown around, it's not the GAA giving it out. The Revenue Commissioners is catching up with county boards all round the country and a number of them have made voluntary disclosures in the last number of years. There's never been more scrutiny of expenses. Any county still fiddling around with expenses are playing a very foolish game.
As for expenses itself, if a lad was travelling 200 mile round trips 4 times a week (which a few managers would be at), that amount is going to add up quickly at 70c a mile. They'd be also entitled to expense any meals they have on county business, a phone, accommodation if needed. These amounts add up quickly. And then repeat that for other members of the management team.
Square_B (Leitrim) - Posts: 2433 - 13/09/2026 10:53:11
The Revenue needs to be overhauled in Ireland. Taxation across the board is very high, and yet the National Debt is set to increase by 10 billion this decade, which doesn't shock me with how much money is wasted each year.
Our perceived freedom is gradually eroding away in the name of "Suspected Criminal Money laundering", where they are trying to eliminate the use of cash, as digital transfers can be 100% monitored. I personally think that once we pay our income tax at source, we should be exempt from all monitoring.
Ireland is also one of the most unattractive places to be based if investing in the Stock, Investment funds etc due to taxation on ETFs etc, so heavy handed, it obstructs bringing money into the Country from abroad." That's great, not sure what it has to do with my post unless of course you're suggesting that Revenue shouldn't be scrutinising these expenses?"
Revenue needs a manor overhaul, just like the rest of the bloated public sector.
Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1962 - 17/09/2026 15:41:25
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Replying To Square_B: "If there's an extra few bob being thrown around, it's not the GAA giving it out. The Revenue Commissioners is catching up with county boards all round the country and a number of them have made voluntary disclosures in the last number of years. There's never been more scrutiny of expenses. Any county still fiddling around with expenses are playing a very foolish game.
As for expenses itself, if a lad was travelling 200 mile round trips 4 times a week (which a few managers would be at), that amount is going to add up quickly at 70c a mile. They'd be also entitled to expense any meals they have on county business, a phone, accommodation if needed. These amounts add up quickly. And then repeat that for other members of the management team." What amazes me is how people brag that 80 percent of the income goes back into the sport.
This is the line people use to defend the GAA as if other sports don't put income into coaching and development. I think people believe the money is going into local club facilities when only 5m goes into facilities. A lot goes into full time development coaching and paying board members.
Its time to be upfront about the money. If the organisation is so noble it needs to stop with the under the table dealings. No payment to players isn't seen as noble it's seen as unfair. At least if people knew how much money managers are getting paid it would take away the grey areas of the GAA. Volunteers deserve to know who's getting paid and who's not for it to be a proper fair organisation where no one is being taken advantage of.
Kew (Galway) - Posts: 427 - 18/09/2026 08:21:18
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Replying To Kew: "What amazes me is how people brag that 80 percent of the income goes back into the sport.
This is the line people use to defend the GAA as if other sports don't put income into coaching and development. I think people believe the money is going into local club facilities when only 5m goes into facilities. A lot goes into full time development coaching and paying board members.
Its time to be upfront about the money. If the organisation is so noble it needs to stop with the under the table dealings. No payment to players isn't seen as noble it's seen as unfair. At least if people knew how much money managers are getting paid it would take away the grey areas of the GAA. Volunteers deserve to know who's getting paid and who's not for it to be a proper fair organisation where no one is being taken advantage of." A lot of it goes into full-time coaching and games development all right, and rightly so.
As regards 'paying board members' - as one who's served on the board at county and provincial level, as well as on a national committee in Croke Park, I'm curious to learn more about such payments, as I never received them!
Finally, GAA centrally doesn't pay managers, so why would you expect to see any payments to them reflected in the accounts of the GAA itself?
Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 4052 - 18/09/2026 12:08:32
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Tony leen has a piece on the Irish examiner
The GAA can build Croke Park. So why not build houses? South Kerry's radical solution
It's a great piece really. It sums up how the gaa is gone out of control. Let's remember what the GAA is and what it has become. People want to build houses to keep clubs going. Would people think of building houses in isolated areas to keep a darts club going ?
Kew (Galway) - Posts: 427 - 19/09/2026 09:24:04
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Replying To Kew: "Tony leen has a piece on the Irish examiner
The GAA can build Croke Park. So why not build houses? South Kerry's radical solution
It's a great piece really. It sums up how the gaa is gone out of control. Let's remember what the GAA is and what it has become. People want to build houses to keep clubs going. Would people think of building houses in isolated areas to keep a darts club going ?" Not sure what you're getting at there tbh but building houses won't necessarily do much to help,it might,but its by no means a given.
Irelands population growth is overwhelmingly driven by immigration and unfortunately uptake in GAA among the "new Irish" is quite low at the moment.Hopefully that changes as the GAA needs every boy and girl it can get but for now international sports,especially soccer, will be the main beneficiaries of any population booms in newly developed areas.
Seniorleague (Galway) - Posts: 333 - 20/09/2026 12:45:07
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