GAA president Sean Kelly is confident that threatened strike action by GPA members will be averted. The players' body was enraged when the GAA failed to send a representative to a meeting discussing grants for inter-county players with Minister for Sport John O'Donoghue last week. Kelly was taken aback by the GPA's reaction, but is adamant that both parties can still work together on the matter. "There's no problem with sitting down and talking things through," he said. "That's the sensible way to do things. Hopefully, it will work out in the end. "The GPA had been looking for this meeting for some time and I had intended going to it because it involved discussions at ministerial level, but Nickey Brennan as incoming president said he would like an opportunity to discuss the matter with the GPA before we made any moves of that nature. "Management and Central Council respected that. It is postponed rather than any decision having been made on it, but I can understand their frustration." Tweet

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