Jarlath Burns is favourite to be named 41st GAA president with Pat Teehan and Niall Erskine the other candidates
In the days leading up to that election, the Longford native was actually the bookies’ favourite to succeed Aogán Ó Fearghail. However, on the night, John Horan won emphatically, attaining 144 votes on the first count. Skelly, who received 22 votes, had been outmanoeuvred in those final hours.
The winner on Friday will again be determined by the PR single transferable vote system. The presence of another Ulster candidate in Erskine complicates the numbers game for Burns somewhat as it could split votes in the province. “A lot of the overseas delegates will be arriving on Thursday evening or Friday morning,” he says. “I’d imagine many will be staying in the Croke Park Hotel, so there will be opportunities for candidates to press the flesh and impress upon delegates how they would support overseas units. If you can bring overseas votes with you, then you have a great chance.”Skelly opted not to run a second time, but he can understand why Burns is once again chasing down the role.
“He would have known he was close and having performed well then of course there was obviously going to be a strong possibility of him entering again. The tendency would be for a defeated presidential candidate, who performed well, to come back and win the next time. They would generally be regarded as the front-runner.”
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