Europe GAA chairman Tony Bass stands by his Congress comments about the Club Players Association (CPA), insisting the GAA is best placed to address clubs’ concerns, writes John Fogarty. Bass categorically denied he described the CPA as “a nutty group”, as executive members of the CPA claimed. He remarked: “The first thing I spoke about was trusting people who you elect and if you don’t trust them don’t elect them. “My view is that the GAA is very democratic and I said what I said last year that the GAA were the real club players association. “In Europe, we go through a lot of motions and we know a lot of them wouldn’t directly affect us but we try and understand them.

Source: Evening echo February 28, 2018 11:26 UTC