Paul Madden’s attention to detail used to fixate on a hotel lobby and bedroom layout. A guest does not want to be let down when they first walk through the revolving doors or tap their room key card. His attention to detail is now fixated on the Clare football dressing room. It is very different running a 70-bedroom town centre hotel in the West of Ireland to managing an 1,100-bedroom hotel in Oxford Street. In her final report as Clare GAA CEO last December, Deirdre Murphy wrote that they had learned the hard way of the risk that comes with appointing outside managers.

Source: Irish Examiner March 14, 2026 14:25 UTC