GPA welcome public clarification by the GAA to support new female charter

Many Tipperary intercounty players are part of the GPA and, across the country, the players welcomed yesterday's public clarification by the GAA Director General Tom Ryan at the Joint Committee for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media that the GAA are willing to help establish a female charter should they be so asked by the LGFA and Camogie Association.

There are many links between the various teams in different counties and that is the case in Tipperary too where - for example - the senior hurling captain Noel McGrath is a first cousin of Eimear and Aoife McGrath who play for the county senior camogie team. 

Now momentum is brewing nationwide for widespread change in gaelic games. The GPA have released a statement on the matter which reads as follows: 

It has always been the players’ view that the GAA would have to play a role and it is encouraging that they have now made their willingness to do so known on the public record.

The ball is clearly now in the LGFA and Camogie Association’s court.  

They can detail how they will provide the necessary funding to establish a standardised charter for female inter-county players in line with their male colleagues or, they can hear what their own players have been calling for, for several months, and ask for the support of the GAA.  

Either way, there should now be no block to a standardised, mandatory charter for female inter-county players being developed. 

Players remain willing to sit down collectively to find the much-needed resolution.