When Tom Ryan was unveiled as the GAA’s new Director General last April, a 15-minute interview entitled ‘Getting to know Tom Ryan’ was published on the Association’s website. The narrative gained traction throughout the ‘Newbridge or nowhere’ and Liam Miller benefit game controversies though it’s one that frustrates Ryan deeply. “I don’t like that, clearly we have a job to do to break that,” said Ryan. But if people feel that, if that’s the perception that people have, I think then equally we have difficulties. ‘Croke Park’ is used as a collective word, without ascribing any identity to people.

Source: Irish Examiner November 30, 2018 00:00 UTC