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Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by GAA President, Mr. Larry McCarthy (26 Apr 2023)

Jerry Buttimer: The idea that a president of the GAA would be with today us is not new to Seanad Éireann. The diaspora extends that sense of belonging beyond boundaries, as we know in this House through our former colleague, Mr. Billy Lawless, and by Senator Mark Daly being the first spokesperson for a political party for the diaspora. The GAA very clearly demonstrates this in a real way. It has a...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by GAA President, Mr. Larry McCarthy (26 Apr 2023)

Shane Cassells: ...éidigh, who serves on the audit committee. What makes the GAA so special was in evidence again just a short few weeks ago in a ground many thousands of miles away from here, out in The Bronx. We saw the importance of the GAA to our diaspora when New York beat Leitrim in the championship. The pictures of Mr. McCarthy embracing players in the field and in the dressing room afterwards...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by GAA President, Mr. Larry McCarthy (26 Apr 2023)

...and amateur sport? This is a bigger context than any particular team, I suggest. We have a wonderful partnership with RTÉ in GAAGo. We have created this entity and we did it initially for the diaspora. Covid-19 showed us how we can do this at home, essentially. What we have done now is to create a wonderful streaming service with GAAGo so that anybody anywhere in the world can...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by GAA President, Mr. Larry McCarthy (26 Apr 2023)

Mark Daly: .... A one-club model will not only transform the GAA but will transform communities and lead the way in treating everybody equally within the organisation. We are proud that Mr. McCarthy is the first member of the diaspora to lead the GAA, out of our 70 million diaspora around the world. He is the first but by no means will he be the last. Uachtarán, all politics is local and we are...