GAA president says Northern Ireland Communities Minister is yet to attend GAA match
has delivered a scathing appraisal of the DUP’s Northern Ireland Communities Minister Gordon Lyons and his failure to engage with the association and the effect onIn a media briefing conducted just after the conclusion of this year’s annual congress, he was asked about the current status of Casement Park in Belfast.
“If you compare that to Charlie McConalogue , who has just been appointed, I’ve now had two meetings with him. I was in Ballybofey and he came here to see me at Congress and we’re meeting at the Taoiseach next week.”Burns added that when Lyons had been appointed last year, he had received an invitation to a GAA match of his own choosing but despite the 2024 dominance of Ulster counties in football, he had yet to take up the offer.
Despite these downbeat sentiments, the president had been encouraged by a visit to the Northern Ireland Assembly. “Having said that, last week there was a series of signs, very, very insulting signs on the GAA going up in Randalstown, really threatening signs. Not one member of the unionist politicians have condemned it or had anything to say on it.
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