Chief executive Tom Parsons says GPA opposed to extending intercounty season beyond eight months
Tom Parsons: says the GPA is flexible on August All-Ireland finals, but only if the season started later and so remained in that eight-month window. Photograph: Tom Maher/Inpho
However, the GPA say the intercounty season must be no longer than eight months – from when teams are allowed return to collective training until the All-Ireland final. “We don’t have a set position that it needs to be December to July, that’s something that can be consulted with players but I would anticipate that as long as players are getting those break periods, that meaningful time with their clubs, that break period between county and club and vice versa – if that eight month period shifted that is something we would absolutely consult with players.
“Something that is within our remit is to mandate our members that players who have been on panels for two years don’t engage in preseason competitions,” he says. “I certainly think it is down to welfare,” says Staunton. “There are numerous different things, the whole woman charter – it only came in this year so we have to wait to see how that is going. But mileage, we’re still unclear on that.
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