St Vincents' GAA Club in March 2020 as the coronavirus pandemic brings a stop to all Irish sport. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpholockdowns were pitched at a few weeks, up until the end of the month. Nobody believed it, though. The impact was widely seen as likely to last far longer and it did., annual congress had taken place — an election congress at which Larry McCarthy became president-elect.
Covid changed all that when the split season surfed through the 2021 congress, but with the highly successful club-county order reversed so that intercounty competitions would go first. Reservations are still out there. Is the intercounty season too squeezed and does the GAA lose promotional opportunity by cutting six weeks off its All-Ireland season?
As the head of a voluntary, sporting organisation, his statements had the dual virtue of leading the membership and at the same time projecting an image of the GAA. Conscious its activities were recreational and therefore subordinate to the health needs of the community, it also understood that those same activities were an important part of people’s lives.
Governance was facilitated by the widespread deployment of remote meetings. There was no need for people to convene from all over the country when they could be linked up on Zoom or Teams There was also the necessarily reduced command structure with the president, director general Tom Ryan and Feargal McGill, effectively the GAA lead on Covid, forming a troika.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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