Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 April 2024

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media

Integration of LGFA and Camogie Association with the GAA: Discussion

Mr. Brian Molloy:

We regularly do double headers of hurling and camogie up and down the country. To be fair, throughout the provinces, there is a good buy-in to facilitating double headers. We get good engagement in terms of gate splits and such matters that have to be worked out, because we are separate organisations, and how we manage. It is important to say that the provincial GAA councils have always been good and worked well with us. Our attendee numbers are low. We need to drive them up. We need more people to attend our games. I will give the Cathaoirleach a copy of my congress speech for the members, as it has been mentioned a few times. I raised the point in my congress speech that we have to look at ourselves first. We have to make sure that the camogie members from around the country are getting up to Croke Park and watching the final, irrespective of who is in that final. We have a tendency to go when our county is in the final, but not necessarily when our county is not in it. We ourselves have to get better. We also need more support from the GAA. We need the GAA to encourage its members to go out and watch camogie finals. I am very appreciative of Mr. Ó Broin and his team because they are very strong in terms of the press releases that are going out, highlighting the fact that the Dublin-Meath game is being preceded by our division 2 and division 1 finals.

Similarly with the LGFA we in the Camogie Association need to get better at supporting Mr. Naughton and his association and its fixtures and vice versa. That will come in that integrated mindset when we see that we are all part of the same association and all supporting each other.

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