Jim Gavin has slammed the GAA’s financial review committee as ‘short-sighted’.
The Dublin football manager was addressing proposed cuts in funding to the capital.
It has reportedly been recommended that Dublin’s allocation of central funds for coaching and games development should be pared back.
“What’s surprised and disappointed me is to hear, in the week of our semi-final game I think, that there was proposed cuts to our funding for games development in Dublin,” Gavin told The Irish Times after yesterday’s annual Dubs Stars challenge.
“I’ve great admiration and respect for them but this is very disappointing and is short-sightedness on the part of the financial review committee who have proposed to cut funding.
“There were some comments in the summer in terms of the financial clout that Dublin have and it having a direct correlation with the senior county team’s success.
“Most of that money goes back into the clubs. I and any of the managers in Dublin have a very strict budget and outside of that, like, we do no overseas camps, take very little camps away.
“It surprised me (the funding suggestion). I suppose it’s a lack of understanding on some people’s behalf to suggest we have something that we don’t.”
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