Bradley Bytes – A sort of political column by Dara Bradley

The GAA has the begging bowl out again, through the Gaelic Players Association.

The GPA represents the GAA’s elite, high-performance, inter-county players, the top few per cent who compete at the highest level of Ireland’s national amateur sports.

GPA leaders last week lobbied for Government grants available to inter-county players to be increased to €2,500 per player. They want €4,000 grants per player by 2030.

According to the GPA’s pre-Budget submission, inter-county players currently get an average Government grant of €1,400 per year.

That’s about €120 per month, or €155 excluding the ‘off-season’ when inter-county players are not supposed to be training collectively.

But the GPA said the “personal cost of........

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