Ted Neville

But I just want to make the point to contrast, because I don't think a lot of people understand that within the GAA.

Players in other sports...

actually pay to compete, right?

I will go to the Irish Senior Weightlifting Championships in Waterford in July.

Every competitor there will pay to actually compete in the Irish Senior Championships.

There will be no travel.

There will be no meals.

There might be a sandwich and a cup of tea at the end of it.

But people outside of the rarefied atmosphere of the GAA soccer and rugby actually listen in and almost laugh at the...

the situation as to how deprived those players are.

They're not.

They have no possible comprehension of what amateur, real amateur sport without money is in Ireland.

And it's not just true with some of the small sports that I'm familiar with.

but it's many others.

You drive to the venue, you train, you pay to train, you pay to train in a weightlifting club, in a wrestling club, in any club.

GAA, by virtue of its size, and huge government funding, right?

Let's be clear about this.

£110 million.

state funding into Croke Park, £30 million into Parc y Cuid, and £50 million going outside the state's territorial boundaries to a stadium that was abandoned, as the men said, in Belfast.

I know they come along looking for £200 million.