Charlotte Burns

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There's very little wrong overall with the game of hurling but like any organisation it just needs to look at itself, it just needs to analyse itself and just to see where it's going in the next year, two years, three years.

So what the President, Charlotte Burns, asked me to do was to look at the game of hurling, analyse the game of hurling and see what tweaks we could make to the game of hurling that would improve it in the overall sense.

So that's basically what we've done.

And

She was one of the first to come.

She was also with Charlotte Burns when she was there.

She was also with RTE.

Think about that when you're talking about something like that.

Number

two, I think I agree with Charlotte Burns.

I think Charlotte Burns said that it wasn't a crisis.

I think it will be solved.

Maybe it will take a bit more time, but it will be solved in time.

Yeah, and sometimes people trying to, you know, process that and take that on board, you know, I'd be looking to say, oh, Jesus, you know, I'm going to be the big loser in that.

And that's why Charlotte Burns is 100% right.

We're only going to get one opportunity of this and we've got to get it right because what you don't want is, right, the three of them coming in together, right? and they're not having all the plans in place and not having all their ducks in a row and then what's to say that the LGFA after 12 months say well look this is not suiting us we're going to pull out like some of these like there's some fantastic people in great associations but there's still some dinosaurs there that, you know, I'm kind of scratching my head saying, like, are Croke Park prepared for some of these dinosaurs coming on board? Like, I'll give you a funny story.

I'll go back five years ago, 2021.

No, but you look at, and as we say, a lot of things that are put on media, and you're kind of saying, is it true or isn't? And being going to Congresses myself over the last few years, being kind of pure, and you're looking at, they say, no, we're going to join this and join that together, and they're always going to have the expense.

But with Charlotte Burns coming out and saying that it's going to be so much more of an expense, but we all...

Do you not think we're all going to combine our own monies and put them together and hopefully combine together and see a lot also on media today that people are saying that the two women's organisations should join and that the GEA be separate? I can't say.

Because I say an awful lot of it is because saying the women because you look at it if they're dual players that they don't get to the fixture set.

I don't think anybody at the top of this leadership or leadership from any of the four bodies involved comes out well here.

And we can get on to Charlotte Burns and the Camogie Association and the LGFA shortly.

I actually think, like, I wouldn't necessarily absolve Mary McAleese of blame

either.

Really, it was the GPA, let's be honest.

the Gaelic Players Association, who had been keeping this conversation alive in integration, I would have thought someone who has as much experience of politics as Mary McAleese does would have realised that if things were going awry, which they seem to have been from a long way out, there were red flags about where integration was going from about a year and a half ago, that she would have seen an opportunity to get out in front of the media and say we need to keep this going and not come out a month before everyone was meant to vote on this thing long after the horses have bolted so that would be one thing but I just found it a very frustrating experience with how everybody explained why integration, the wheels had come off.

Charlotte Burns mentions the finances.

The Director General of the GAA, Tom Ryan, mentioned that, well, it's the membership structures.

She was one independent voice in a room with very strong people from LGFA, from Camogie and from the GAA and It needed several independent heads to try and solve a lot of the problems.

And then Charlotte Burns didn't really help the situation coming out.

Sorry, go back.

Mary McAleese's comments that she was less than impressed with the committee, the central committee or the committee she was dealing with within the GA.

So you can't come to a table, be it GAA, LGFA or Camogie, you can't come to a table prepared to dig your heels in and say, absolutely not to everything.

Everybody has to accept a little bit of give and take.

So there is a financial element of it, Charlotte Burns.

spoke about, oh, well, it's 45 million as it stands to run our inter-county teams.