Professor Mary McAleese:

No. That is the remarkable thing. In fairness to the GPA, it has really pushed the integration project at the congresses. It seemed to open up a reservoir of yeses to integration that was there, just waiting to be mined, to be drained, as we are doing. We are trying to get the best of that working. As Mr. Ó Broin said earlier, this project has been around for a very long time, but it seems now to be a project whose time has come. The rightness and the integrity of it is just so appealing now that the idea of not doing it strikes most people as quite ludicrous. On all the various levels of the association and with all the stakeholders with whom we engaged, including in the survey, we were overwhelmed by the positivity. Yes, people can see problems - of course they can - and, as Mr. Molloy pointed out, a lot of those problems - facilities, fixtures, money - will be there whether there is integration or not. There will always be issues, but they are better dealt with in an integrated way. Why? Because integration has true integrity about it. I refer to an equal organisation.

I remember going down to Carran last year, to Michael Cusack's old home, and standing there and saying, "If he were starting the organisation today, not in a million years would he set up an organisation just for male sports." There is no way.

He would have been leading the posse. Like those who set off 50 years ago with the LGFA and 120 years ago with camogie, he had passion for these wonderful, unique Gaelic games. You do meet the odd Chicken Licken, and we are probably going to still meet them, but we have to push through and hopefully bring them with us.