Cork Board back GPA agreement
Cork County Board overwhelmingly backed the interim arrangement between the GAA and the GPA at a meeting on Thursday night.
On a show of hands, the 92 of the 104 delegates voted in favour of supporting the proposed deal between the GAA and the players' representative body, with just 12 against.
'We need to bring the GPA in from the cold', said Dripsey delegate Tomás Ryan, who seconded the motion proposed by Béara delegate Mick Reynolds. 'The current president of the GAA is a Corkman and he would not be supporting anything that would do damage to the association.'
According to a report in today's Irish Examiner , County Secretary Frank Murphy also expressed his support of the agreement.
Murphy said: 'In terms of recognition of the GPA, I feel it's appropriate that it be regularised at this point.
'The one serious advantage from the association's viewpoint would be in the commercial field. At the moment you have division. The association should be conscious that where we have major sponsors of our games it shouldn't have to be looking over its shoulder at what might and might not be at any given time.'
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