If a rule or regulation is outdated and obviously not fit for purpose, should it not be a priority to tackle that, rather than how to go about the increasingly difficult task of enforcing it?
At his inaugural media briefing in Newry last year, GAA president Jarlath Burns struck a bullish tone on the prospects for his new committee on amateurism. He was responding to a question loosely based on an aphorism of one of his predecessors – Peter Quinn, who chaired the 1997 Amateur Status Review Committee (ASRC) – that not alone were they unable to find under-the-table payments but they couldn’t even locate the table.
“I am not going to adhere to the ‘we couldn’t even find the table’ [line]. The table is a lot easier to find now, the world has changed significantly – and I say that having been born and reared in a cash economy in south Armagh.”
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