Director general Tom Ryan admits that the GAA doesn’t have any specific plan in place to counter Brexit.

There’s still massive uncertainty surrounding what exactly will happen when the UK exits the European Union on March 29th, but there will definitely be repercussions of some sort for GAA personnel north of the border.

“It is at the forefront of our thoughts,” Ryan is quoted in The Irish Daily Mirror. “Probably more so in recent months than previously, where there always would have been a bit of an assumption, I'd say on everybody’s part, that it will work out and a solution will be found. That’s maybe becoming a little more worrying in recent weeks.

 “But it’s very, very difficult to plan practically for something when you really don’t know what the shape of it is going to be. We’re two months away from it and we still don’t know.

“The biggest concern would be just the day-to-day operation of counties and clubs in the border region, both sides of the border.  How people will get to go to matches? How people will get to go to training? The negative impact that it would have on communities and the knock-on effect that it would have for the GAA in those communities, if they were to suffer.

“So, it’s something that I am concerned about. But in terms of a specific plan to counter it, we don’t have one.”

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