Mr. Tom Parsons:

Context is important, too. For half the year, intercounty players are club players and are treated the same as other club players. For the other half of the year, they are intercounty players, which is different because it pulls in players from all over the county. I am from Mayo, for example, because work was not in Mayo, we had 12 players living in Dublin. There is also the load to be able to play at that level. It does have a certain cost.

There are 2,200 clubs as well. If you talk to any club, it will say the minimum budget for a senior club team is €40,000 or €50,000. There is €100,000 of the club-----