Inside Politics: GAAGo clash with Government looks like it might become an annual fixture

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Claim by GAA president Jarlath Burns of Ministerial electioneering gets to the heart of a broader truth for the Coalition

Last weekend’s excitement in Páirc Uí Chaomih, where Cork defeated Limerick, promoted a renewal of tensions between the Government and the GAA over which matches are shown on GAAGo. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inphoas another instalment of the GAA versus the Government got into gear. This clash now looks like it might become an annual fixture, as the Jones’ Road contingent renewed rivalries with their cross-town Merrion Street opponents.

Flushed from the weekend’s excitement in Páirc Uí Chaomih, the Corkonian Tánaiste was unlikely to pass up his shot, and. As one wag observed yesterday, Martin’s view can be concisely captured as wanting all the games to be on TV given all the money the GAA gets.GAA president Burns is not taking this lying down, and seems in no mood to act as a political punching bag - levelling his charge of electioneering in return.

In the afternoon, legislation amending divorce laws is being introduced, before Taoiseach’s questions at 3.10pm. Sinn Féin have a private members’ motion on the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, before Ossian Smyth takes oral PQs in his party leader’s place just before 8pm.At the committees, the National Energy and Climate Plan is up for discussion at the Environment Committee at 11am.

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