GPA chief Tom Parsons has issued the GAA an ultimatum by insisting the pre-pandemic players’ charter must be restored.
Players are weighing up their next move after refusing to engage in media interviews around last weekend’s Allianz Football League games with an escalation in the offing if the standoff with the GAA isn’t resolved by the coming weekend, when there are full rounds of fixtures in both codes.
The GAA has agreed to restore the 65c mileage rate after it was dropped to 50c during the pandemic but the crux of the issue now surrounds the number of training sessions/games to which the charter will apply. The GAA says that it will only provide a subvention for a maximum of four sessions/games a week, with the local county board having to pick up the slack thereafter.
