Clare hurler is calling for the ‘inadequacy of the current insurance’ plan for GAA players to be addressed
Clare's Shane O'Donnell says GAA players should not be left"out of pocket for playing for their county". Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho
“Where I’m coming from? I’m sure some of ye are aware that I had quite a bad concussion a couple of years ago. Essentially, roughly, I ended up being out of work for about six or seven weeks and taking unpaid leave. I had just started work and wasn’t really able to argue for paid leave essentially, so I would have taken unpaid leave for six weeks when you add it all up.
“You can’t claim for the first week either so I end up claiming for €1,500. Obviously, that’s not going to nearly cover what your loss of wages would have been. So, that’s the inspiration for the motion. The idea or the concept is players won’t be in the situation where they’re out of pocket for playing for their county, be that in training or matches essentially. I don’t think that’s an unreasonable ask.
“The tone of the email was essentially that I should be happy with what they were willing to give me. That was essentially what the response was.” He added that he felt ashamed not to have responded with an angry email but “I realised that that wasn’t going to get me anywhere”.“He said he would look to try and get that covered if the GAA weren’t – he just assumed that the GAA were covering that when I went through the process of looking for the loss of wages.
“It probably took three or four months to be confident that I might in any way keep my job beyond the probationary period,” he said.
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