Starting with gaa and the Clare county board has given it’s backing to calls for county senior managers to receive structured payments and increased expenses.
Following a lengthy debate Chairman Michael O Neill felt that an increase on the mileage rate for managers and an exploration of payments to managers was the view of the meeting.
Several speakers revealed their feelings on the matter including Niall Romer of Kilmaley who asked the meeting not to open a tin of worms on the issue while Noel O’Driscoll of O’Callaghans Mills felt that the payments were happening anyway and that the GAA must regulate it.
Seamus O’Reilly of Clondegad agreed that managers should receive increased mileage but was opposed to managers being paid, especially in terms of how a contract with an individual may be terminated while Denis Tuohy of Whitegate believed that mileage should be indexed linked.
Following almost an hour of debate the chairman sought the the consenus of the meeting, which in his view was that mangers be paid structurally and expenses be increased.
Michael O’Neill told told Clare FM that the issue cannot be allowed attack the amateur ethos of the GAA.
The board will meet with Croke Park later this month to put forward their proposal ahead of a motion for congress in Arpil.
