Pat Spillane
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6,372 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Pat Spillane’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's a messy one.
There's no winner in that now.
Uh this should have been sorted out.
I don't know, maybe did people go to the media too quickly, maybe it became too public too quickly, but this was something that heads should have been put together between a senior management players group, um uh county board and the and the senior management itself to sort it out.
It's it's messy and there's no winner in this.
Democracy
is great and democracy in theory is absolutely brilliant.
But there is also a danger, if there is a danger, if such a thing maybe it's wrong what to use, but of too much democracy.
That you sort of want you feel everyone must have a say and everyone must have an input and whatever like that.
And and
And and I can see that's happening in the G A C in at club level and at intercounty level, where there's a there's a um a leadership group, as they call 'em now, of the senior players.
And he was a deak set mentioned and and and and it's the line that that's in my head.
It blurs the lines.
Like at the end of the day, right, it's all right.
Democracy is great and everyone having an input and a say.
At the end of the day, there has to be a boss.
There has to be
Absolutely, absolutely.
I I remember the Lord de Mercedes, we had a great parish priest here called Father Michael Murphy.
And every village he came to and carry one the all-out and tidy town, snee first.
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