The director-general of the GAA, Tom Ryan, says a hardline approach is needed towards protecting the organisation’s amateur status. But are such calls redundant? Is the GAA effectively a professional body? At the weekend, Cork hurling great Dónal Óg Cusack said: "It was the GAA that decided to build Croke Park, it was the GAA that decided to put the names on the jerseys, it was the GAA that decided to sell the television rights.” Jerry got the views of Pádraig O’Sullivan, who’s chairperson of Glenflesk GAA Coiste na nÓg.
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