Gaelic Players Association founder Donal O'Neill has controversially claimed that it’s only a matter of time before Gaelic footballers and hurlers are paid for playing.
The current controversy over the player grant system will be fuelled further by O'Neill's comments.
O'Neill, who stepped down as the GPA's Commercial Director late last year said: 'The GAA thinks the grants will solve all their problems with the players over the long-term. The GPA don’t think like that but, as an interim measure, the scheme is a good initiative.
'But it'll only keep players happy for a certain period of time. Five years down the line young players won't care about where they get the grants or why, but what's coming to them next.
'The GAA have gone out and created a commercially superb, appealing vehicle and they're profiteering on that, even though they'd don't call it that because they're not a company.
'You cannot do that without bringing people with you,' O'Neill argued. 'It's that simple and it's happened in every other sport. GPA or no GPA, players will be paid at some point, I've no doubt in my mind,' he told the Irish Independent.
