
‘If we don’t spell this out…’ - Dr Aoife Lane & Dublin’s Aisling Maher | The Integration Story | OFF THE BALL BREAKFAST
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The GAA integration story rolls on, after Mary McAleese stepped down as chair of the steering group overseeing the planned merger of the GAA, LGFA and Camogie.
Enda Coll & David Wilson are joined by Aisling Maher (GPA co-chair and Dublin camogie player) and Dr. Aoife Lane to unpack the fallout, Jarlath Burns’ response on RTÉ, and the debate around “equity” versus “equality”.
They dig into the finance arguments, what’s real and what’s “smoke and mirrors”, and the day-to-day reality for female inter-county players: access to pitches, facilities, expenses and basic supports.
What happens next ahead of October 8th, and who needs to be held accountable?
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OTB GAA — ‘If we don’t spell this out…’ - Dr Aoife Lane & Dublin’s Aisling Maher | The Integration Story | OFF THE BALL BREAKFAST. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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that rumbles on over the last couple of days. If you missed this, essentially, over the last couple of days, Mary McElise, who was chairperson of a group overseeing the integration of the GA, LGFA and Camoge associations, stepped down from her position. She had a pretty scared interview on RT about the situation and essentially accused the GA saying that they don't really support the idea that they haven't supported it properly up until now. And also said that some people within the GA don't want women and high-level positions making these decisions. Now, Jarleth Burns was on RT yesterday, the GA president. And he denied these allegations. He denied the allegations of misogyny within the highest levels of the GA. He cited that 9 out of the 19 people in the Management Committee are women and said that he sees equity as a staging post to equality. So this was in relation to Mary McElise's insinuations that the GA were leaning towards more of an equity situation rather than a quality when it came
to the integration of these three organizations. We're going to be talking about this now in more detail. And I'm delighted to say that Ashley and Mark Co-chair of the GPA and Dublin Camoge player is with us. And Dr. Eiffelene is with us as well. Good morning. Good morning. Ashley, we might start with you then because this story has been in place for a couple of days. We had Tom Parsons on off the ball a couple of days ago speaking about this from a GPA perspective. And then Jarleth Burns did mention the GPA by name in terms of his interview over the last couple of days. He said that some people within the GPA have mentioned finances and their comments were inaccurate when it came to the finances involved in making this happen. In terms of this story itself, since Mary McElise stepped down on what you've been hearing over the last couple of days from the various power brokers, how have you been developing and how have you felt about the situation since it broke?
Yeah. It's been messy, I suppose, and a lot of ways. There's been a lot of information there. Some of it accuracy and some of it, I think, not so much. It's difficult to follow, especially when you mentioned Jarleth bringing in finances and stuff like that there. One of the things that have clacked from the GPA in the last day or two is this notion that the intercante game is too expensive and this figure of 40 million is the cost of the men's intercante game. And we have to double that to meet the women's intercante game and where we're going to get 80 or 90 million from is the narrative there very quickly. And not a very frustrating as a player. And not least because this suggests there's nothing happening in the female game at the minute and that we're starting from zero. Over that side, which obviously isn't true. There are championships that are played here in New York. There's a lot of supports there already. And secondly, because I don't think it's reasonable to suggest for a second that the female intercante players aren't willing to work with the GPA and the GPA and Camogee to reach a stage where we're on an equal footing over a period of time.
Nobody's expecting us to click our fingers and come up with this morning and come up with an exact version of equality tomorrow. I think one of the things that have come through consistently when anyone speaks about integration is the idea that it's not a point in time that it is a process that it is something that has to happen over a prolonged period of time. Yeah, just to bring people back in terms of what Tom Parsons was saying. So Tom Parsons said on off the ball that some people might come out and say that we kind of forward to go from 40 to 80 million. He said that he worked on a subcommittee to look at the finance and they developed a minimum charter for intercante players and the cost was an extra five million over two years and he referred to the finance issue as smoke and mirrors. Now, he was almost word for word in terms of what Jarleth Burns did eventually come out and say which was that the GPA have a poor record of controlling expenditure currently. He said if we go straight to equality, the 45 million which we were currently spending preparing county teams goes to 90 million, we just simply cannot sustain that.
So that's what Jarleth Burns said. Now, I do want to pick you up on one point that you mentioned there because the assumption that we go to 45 million and 90 million and it all falls on the GA is a bit of a false star because I mean, the, as you mentioned, the LGFA and the Cmogu associations, they already run championship at a cost to them and they also bring in money. So the LGFA have quite a substantial sponsorship from little. So the idea that the GA would have to foot the entirety of the bill is probably not true because surely the LGFA and the Cmogu association are bringing over sponsors and bringing in money immediately and that 90 million isn't all down to the GA's current budget. Absolutely. And like this government funding itself applies into that as well. Like there's, as I said, this championship's happening. You know, there's teams that are fielding weekend, we guys, there's jerseys, there's jerseys, there's gear, there's sponsors, there's a plenty of funding already in the female game. And you know, one of the things that Jarlet mentioned when he's
listing the costs of everything was training camps abroad for every team. You know, like there's no suggestion here that women are going to enter the GA tomorrow and expect the GA to foot the bill to continue training and holidays abroad every year. Like we're talking about access to resources and pitches that are already there. Another comment was made that really frustrated me as today was, you know, when women are bringing the same amount of gates as the men are, well then we can have a conversation about integration. But we're supposed to generate that money. We don't have any stadiums, we don't have pitches to be playing our games at. So how are we supposed to increase our increased our gap receipts when we don't have pitches to be playing on? The access to facilities is a huge piece for female players and it's one of those costs the GA, right? It's nowhere near talking about Dublin. You're 40 million to 80 million. You're talking about gyms that are already built for male intercante teams. You're talking about training grounds that already exist. You're talking about intercante stadiums that already exist. Huge part of the difficulties that female athletes face the
minute is not being able to get access to training grounds, not being able to get access to the pitches, not being able to access to hot chairs after training. These are the issues that women will expect to see all of us as soon as we interact, not training camps abroad and figure the 40 million being pulled out and aware by the GA. Dr. Eiffelene, I want to bring you in in this as well because you've actually been working separately on this issue as well in the background. When you heard the news about Mary McElise step and die from the steering group and in some of the reaction from within the GA and within the different organizations, did you feel like this was an inevitable endpoint for that steering group? Did it feel to you that they were not up against a height and for nothing but this 2027 deadline that was set and was never really going to happen or where did you land on this story? Yeah, like, like, I think it's been a crazy 2448 hour. I didn't think it was going to end
like that. You know, that was a bit of a bombshell and what I probably did think it was in trouble for the last two or three years. It just, it just, to me, never felt realistic in its timeline and genuine in its intent. Like the original intent was one association underpin by the principle of equality. And the long was born on, the more I was worried that that intent was, was in bother. I didn't see an understanding of equality. I didn't see a commitment to figure it out to see what it would look like, to have a plan towards developing it. And like I'm on the girls side here, I want everything to be better for girls and women. And if that was, if that underpin was integration to begin with, and for me, there was no clarity around it. I, maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Like, maybe it's something that was really important that we happened and someone shouted stop. Maybe Mary McLeese is on a subfavor because, you know, I've seen talking about very realistic expectations there, but I didn't be worried about any expectation because if it wasn't written
down, it wasn't mapped out or planned out. You're leaving it to chance. And you're like, we're going to integrate and be one association now, go away, double and go figure it out. And I just, yeah, that, that really worried me as well as the timeline thing. You know, I think Mary McLeese spoke the last day a lot about the post integration and the process afterward, but that's probably all should have happened three years ago. You know, nobody had that clarity from the start that it wouldn't be a point in time. Everyone was clamoring and going, how are we going to do this? How are we going to look after all the girls teams, all the individual players? How are we going to figure out this equality thing? So, yeah, I don't know. The bit of me thinking this is a really important reality check. And I'll even throw on a bit last night when now we have a new day in front of a city of October. And I'm like, will they figure out equality between now and three weeks time? I don't think so. And I genuinely would just be a bit worried every other merger that's happened in sports.
When it's left like that, the girls are marginalized. It takes an awful long time to bring it back. And we have a really big chance here. That's all we're all excited about. The other part of the administration, but I suppose look at it. I'm biased and probably asking is too around who we represent and what we want for girls and women and kids. Yeah, you mentioned the word equality there. And it has been a word that has been brought into this over the last couple days because at now the Lexi Jarrett burns is using the term equity as opposed to equality and saying that he sees equity as a staging post towards equality. When you hear language like that within the GA and from the president of the GA, is that something that worries you? Is equity is it fair to say that we need to have equity before we can get equality? Or do you find that as a little bit of a kick in the can down the road and make an excuses for not wanting to bring in equality?
I look, I think it's Fodget's jargon. I think there were originally used with equality and we should would stick around that. I mean, the true intent of equity is that girls need more, you know, to bring them to the stage where they are properly supported and developed and looked after. Like swashlings point around attendances and stuff. We don't know what the capability of girls is because we've never looked after them. You know, who knows? They could say in both parties if they were supported and developed and nurtured and acknowledged from when they're 12 or 13th way boys are. You know, that actually requires more investment because girls are actually technically more complex. Our bodies does a lot more going on. We start through what you earlier. We have menstrual cycle, we develop breasts, we have pelvic out tissue, we have babies. I'm actually, that's not catered for at all in the system. Whatever about it in reality, definitely not for all that. So I would argue that girls need more, but I think we kind of at our starting point for like, let's just even self-reflect. Even if everyone through a mirror back in themselves
and went, how are we getting on? What's the reality? We've done some work and they start to play in a year later than boys. Straight off, they start leisure. When they do play, they play less. They don't have as many games, they don't have any competitions. They don't practice on their own as much. They start to train the conditioning later. They don't have access to nutritionists to doctors, to sports scientists. Leskers play in talent development pathways than boys. You know, there's the whole story there that brings you to that point where, but I wonder if we did look after them well enough. There's lots of data there to show the gap in the system. But all of that out there have a starting point. Be honest with ourselves and then go, let's try and fix this. I haven't even touched on cold chains or leadership or referees or media or anything like that. But it's the same story. If you're on your paper that you work back in 2022 with Dr. Katie Liston and Connor Meiler and obviously Connor Meilers in the show last night, but under kind of point two, there's a ball of points saying strategic thinking and planning.
Identify strategic opportunities for the individual, for individual structural and cultural transformation through integration, as well as a strategic plan for equality. Is there a lack of strategic thinking and planning within the top of these organizations in both the GIA, the LGFA and the Kmoge Association, especially over the last couple of years? What I think, Devalga, really nice, fancy strategic plans and, you know, to be remiss, you know, they do. They think strategically there's lots of problems that are beyond integration. Look at the job they did on the football rules. You know, there's there's plenty of ability and capability to think strategically and I think you had a discussion there in earnings for the last 20, 25 minutes. So my issue is more how much they prioritize strategic thinking around integration. You know, why was the resources printed as? I think I said it in a couple of forums yesterday. If they mimicked the FRC approach, Jesus, we've been going well. Wouldn't we look at the level of independence that was on that? Look at the expert at the top of this. There was only one or two GILI game staff on that committee.
I don't think they were ever after media. I'm rightly so. There was lovely infographics, there was loads of surveys, loads of media reports. And I know GILI integration is way more complex, but for me was a template of how you can do things if you have that strategic commitment to. Ashyen, as a current player, do you feel that down by the Paris Depey and the GIA and the LGFA and the Kmoge Association? I look at it's definitely frustrating. You know, the lifespan of inter-canter players, especially as it's yours. And obviously, if you mentioned that, the timelines were ambitious to start with, but when this was first discussed in 2022, 2027 as a player, it feels like miles away. You know, the notion that we've maybe not crossed any of the bridges that we should have in that time. And you know, we've all heard these discussions of another five years or 2034 or whatever gets thrown out. And you're missing a whole generation of girls and players coming up there. And that's what's really disappointing to me to think of the difference in experience
that a lot of those young players could have had if they entered into an inter-canter system now that was, you know, albeit at the start of an integration process, was committed to an integration process and had that blueprint in place. And the experience that those girls have for the next five, six, seven, eight years now could be entirely different. And that could be their entire inter-canter plancker and look at this right. And look, I appreciate it. It's complicated. I appreciate it's important that it's done well. But, you know, we need, we need to face it. To be honest, I think the point that he made there had committed either they did the strategic approach that they put in place here. How much do they want to make this happen? We've all seen the competencies and the capabilities of the GA when they're genuinely committed to something. So we voted in 2022, and this was called a strategic priority at that point. But what's the work that's been done in the last four years? I don't think there's a huge amount for that. But it needs to be used now. It needs to be put in place. And there needs to be a phase two with this to make sure that we're cashing in on that work that's been done because I would really fear that if this doesn't happen now, you know, best case scenario we miss the next generation of women and men and girls, but you know, really it could extend well beyond that.
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I think integration is great and I think most clubs around the country would say that they want integration, most counties would say that they want integration. But then when it comes to the absolute reality of what it means, it means giving up pitches from the man's team to the women's team when they have games, making sure the fixtures are all correct so that they all line up and everyone has equal footing when it comes to the facilities that they need to use to be successful. So I do wonder from a player's perspective, was there any worry within that side of things with the power that the women may have within this new organization? Look, I think we have to acknowledge that everything isn't perfect in Kamogui or LGFA the way it is. There's a number of challenges that exist both within the organization as a whole and within the county boards. My own county Dublin, Kamogui, like Kenchboard, Dutronism work, trying to look after us and trying to sort us out. But the reality of the situation is we don't have a training base where we train year and year is changeable based on whether we can get a college
whether we can get a club pitch. I've never had a year with Dublin where we've had more to start a training base the whole way through. We move constantly and we might have to go somewhere that has totaled a pitch for the first few months and then try and move somewhere that doesn't thereafter. We could be changing depending on the night of the week. We're kind of reliant on somebody and management to have a connection to a college or a club or somewhere that looks after us to get in and have a base somewhere. So yes, of course it will be difficult when you interact the two associations into the GA to ensure that there's an equal standing and that women's voices are represented at the highest levels it should be. But we're not coming from a perfect background and there needs to be an opportunity for improvement here. And as long as you know the GA hold all the resources which they do because of because of history and because of the fact that women were to live play for so long. And as long as that remains the case, you know, we're fighting an uphill battle. So yes, that's something that will be an important consideration. But the reality of what we're talking about here even with the one club model example that you're given like, OK, if we integrate and become a one club, we have to allow girls and men to have equal access to the pitches.
What's the equivalent? The equivalent is that we just allow men to have priority on all the pitches and girls to say whatever's left at the end. And that does happen currently as well. You see that across the country like there is a situation where the reality and being involved in GA it is a shame to see and to say but a lot of the clubs that I've seen or being involved with like the girls have to train either earlier or later or they use the third picture of the fourth pitch. And I think there is definitely a mindset chef needed not only within the GA organization but within the GA community as a whole that integration means integration and equality means equality. So that means the women get the first pitch as well. Absolutely. And like I'll be really honest with you here and say, you know, if that's a problem, then I think it's a problem for the men who believe that they should have exclusive rights to the best pitchers of the best times. Like it's 2026 if we're having an organization tomorrow with the new sporting body, you'd never get funding from a government to you'd never get you know buy in to set up an organization that's extremely or primarily the cases to men and boys and and the layers girls to have whatever's left over at the end of it.
And that that is what's happening in it in a number of clubs, the Elephant's country and you know addressing that for me is is a priority. If a do you think that now in the situation in the situation that we're in right now. Do the government have to take ultimate leadership on this and you know use their funding model to perhaps coax the GA, the LGFA and the Commogio Association to come together. And to come up with a you know a genuine plan to kind of to properly integrate over the next couple of years. Is it the government that has to lead on this or does it have to come from the top echelons of the GA or how do you think that this gets moved on. It sounded like yesterday there being an interest to go and figure out a plan over the next few weeks. I would probably love to see a little bit more influence maybe around three constituent the leadership a little bit. Not anybody losing a job. I'm in steering integration group that you know for me it's heavily weighted.
I think this was said last night there was a president and the CEO from each of the three organizations. I think one is enough. I think there could be CEO from each of the very hard to step back from your own vested interest when you're when you're heavily weighted. The three organizations within that group. I'd love more independence. I think it's been said several times. I'm not reinvented. We hear organization change. Providence experts. Possibly people within Gale Games. Who would have a number of people will play on something like that. The other thing I would love to government to do or sport island or whoever has the will to is. I'm not mandate all more set of the women again against policy and strategy and action plan. Like all of these things you're talking about here and all of the things that I think is expressing that just won't happen unless we spell it out. You know it's like it's so inage and instinctive in certain clothes. Microbaramism that never an issue. And like it's just from the top down bottom up. It's been that way but I know of clubs in Galway west of our into pay the men's love over 10,000 euro to use their bitches.
We don't spell this out. If we don't spell out that the intercontinent players deserve equal expenses in the next year or so. It won't happen. So for me, if there was any will or any influence to be expressed it would be around. Show me what you mean about equality and I want a plan. I want a reflection first and then I want to plan and I want that to be time-bound and realistic and deliverable and that's from playing, coaching, leading, supporting media. All of us all of us women give an awful last to Gale Games. I'm across all of the different organizations. The LGFA did speak there was a meeting between the key figures here with the Minister for Sport Patrick O'Donovan yesterday. And the LGFA did say after that meeting that there was no shame in kicking integration plans down the road slightly. So the moving I'm interested to hear what you think of the timeline if with the 2027 was the deadline here. But realistically that was just that was a deadline that was set to make sure that the organizations became one and that the players were all brought under that organization.
But that didn't necessarily mean that every single change is going to happen in 2027. So I'm interested to hear from your perspective how long do you think this would necessarily take to actually not just integrate the organizations from an organization point of view. In terms of actually like spreading this throughout the country, getting that message delivered to the clubs and to the counties and the fixtures and the facilities. The role out of this would be quite substantial and would take quite a lot of time. But the communication of that would also be very important because the communications thus far has been terrible. There's been nothing really from this steering group up until now. So I'm interested to hear how long you would think something like this might actually take. You might not have a figure for it but even just a rough guideline. Yeah and I mean I'm really grounded by what Ash think said and I would have been one of the ones who said the 2034 birds be perfect. I think what's happened now is the 2027 if we knew 2027 that the stair was governance structures and maybe no more paying for facilities, equalizing county expenses, you know a few other things like that.
Then I would have been fine that all equality might have taken private six years. And I think actually meant that too it's not something you can suddenly increase the proportion of women and poaching overnice. You know that's a systemic change. So I think there were certain things that were always going to take longer. So I would have always followed it might have taken five or six years. But it's really hard to express that now because everybody's frustration under like your kicking and language like kicked in the can down the road isn't helpful either. I think that that's probably a distance in January. It's much more important than language like that. But I think if we so we had all of that clarity and that every layer of scale the games was going to have some benefit in 2027 we'd have been fine. Like I was at the road show in Carri噔 Shannon and people asked about facilities. There was no plan. The thing is always the headline for me it gets maybe too much traction but that could have been very easily sorted in 2027. Very easy with a simple plan. Not be no women playing for pictures and equal access time starts forever.
As I said, other things would take longer. And so I think it's really hard to talk about pushing the timeline now because people are frustration and they feel it's just been delivered. If that was all set out initially I think we'd have all been fine. If every person every woman's rolling in a game, the every aspect you play the game, the new. But the initiative was going to look like for them. They could see your positives. And for the many games as well, it probably would have been a lot more polished but and the man boards if they knew what was coming down the line rather than this vacuum of information. I think the language used by the various people across the week change your viewpoints on the integration and maybe your optimism around it because I mean Mary Maca Lisa's comments when she stepped on on RT. That even were absolutely scathing of the GA and then you do have people like Jarrett Burns coming out then and you know counterpointing that saying that misogyny isn't an issue at the highest levels within the GA does the severity of what seems to be the breaking point for this steering group.
Change your viewpoint on the actual reality of where we're at and making this happen. Yeah, I think the language piece is huge because it probably reflects a deeper level of the priority that's been assigned to this and my people who are involved and I'd like to comment that he's made there. And I think that's a bit of a bad LGFA topic and I can count down the road like that kind of reflects how important they feel it is and that's very frustrating. I even think that some of you know probably some of the language that Jarrett used 20 spoke about you know this isn't a crisis and everything's business as usual and all we need to do is get a new chair. Like that also feels not connected to the level of frustration that I feel as a player with this notion that it's postponed indefinitely. So I do think the language and the choice of words around it is really important and you know I think I think the event and a really important point there as well in terms of the vacuum of information that's been present in the last four years is probably the largest point of frustration for me watching in from the outside and it's definitely kind of accentuated how annoyed I feel about holding.
Not having transpired now because you know I think we've been asking questions and knocking at the door and looking for updates for the last number of years and we've kind of been told don't worry everything's fine over here. It all happened in good time you know Tom's up for 2027 and then suddenly it's actually you know and actually here's these significant problems that can't be surmented overnight and it kind of makes you wonder what are you even talking about for the last four years that these issues haven't been addressed. So I think I think the language of the communication pieces huge and look everybody everybody agrees that integration should be done right before it should be done quickly but there are easy wins there if you touch on a few of them and it's important that there is a plan in place as well to communicate it that shows basic steps that start to impact. And some of the areas that that that you know can be converged easily to much more equal circumstances and that it shows benefit for for the most vulnerable which is the younger as the young players from up. I know you have to go AFS so we'll just we'll wrap this up with I just want to get your final viewpoints the two of you in terms of like what is what's next because if you listen to one person this is a wake up call for the GA and LGFA and the GA community.
If you listen to another person they're saying well this is actually it's actually just going to rumble on that we're going to figure this out and it's it's going to get sorted and you know everyone should just calm down a little bit so I do wonder what you think if you want to go first in terms of like what is this for this story is it a wake up call or is it just like a story that's going to rumble on for the next five six years. It can be a wake up call and I think that's relates back to your question around the government if it was really accountability there and monthly engagement or a direct line of contact between the two committees and you know clear expectations around the gender the equality piece and the strategic thinking piece. It can be but I'm not going to lie I'm a bit worried myself you know how aware is it just this gale of games training I did seem to get a lot of traction the first year so didn't see as many men engage to the main they don't care and they're not involved but you'd love to see more leadership within gale of games in particular bones actually where and maybe not protecting the system as much and speaking up and saying we want to get to open we want to fix it so why like six years.
I see that a good wake up call and a good opportunity I'm not going to lie I'd be a bit worried is it going to fall off unless something changes around that maybe leadership group and around that clarity of communications I'd hate like the GPA will always ask and serve each some third the one of the ones that I always hear and I know they'll keep doing it but we need a lot more entities to do that I think. What about yourself I see. Yeah echo he was going to say the GPA I'll definitely keep pressure on and keep asking questions and try and keep as much momentum behind it as possible but it probably goes from down to the demands that players and members pull back on their associations you know from here on obviously it's been a big media story for the last 24 or 48 hours at this stage but that won't last right the new cycle come up and something else will happen and I know the things will take will take priority and headlines and I guess you know this probably goes from back to the end of the day. It's probably just come back to how much players and members of throbs and the GIA and the LJF and Moe can keep keep it in the headlines and keep talking about it and keep it as a conversational topic and I would like to see.
You know a more set plan from October 8th obviously we're not going to enter a summer but I would like to see you know the government's probably holds hold the integration committee to account a little bit more on unsent tangible outputs from what they're next steps are and I think. You know if we can get something like that in place that is actions and if we can get a bit more independence I think that's another really valid point that you can get more independence on that group I think that's something that will help keep the whole thing moving. Yeah absolutely I say Mar and Dr. Eiffelian thanks very much for joining us this morning. It was thanks to all the ball breakfast. With Viagra Connect 50mg film coded tablets contains still dinner fill for Adelman with erectile dysfunction maximum dosage 150mg tablet per day always read the label by online at ViagraConnect.ai subject to suitability following Farms' consultation. Off the ball rugby roach show is coming to your province join some of the biggest stars from Lenscher, Monster, Ulster and Connacht as we travel around the country to preview the 2026-27 rugby season.
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