{"id":201274,"date":"2025-12-20T03:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201274\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T03:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:37:11","slug":"fai-have-a-higher-moral-ground-than-the-gaa-and-thats-saying-something-david-hickey-reacts-to-gaas-allianz-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/201274\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018FAI have a higher moral ground than the GAA and that\u2019s saying something\u2019 \u2013 David Hickey reacts to GAA\u2019s Allianz decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Former Dublin footballer Dr David Hickey has hit out at the GAA's decision to maintain its sponsorship deal with Allianz. Photo: Ray McManus\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/451e3828-51db-4343-9bff-fc9db4ea8db0.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Former Dublin footballer Dr David Hickey has hit out at the GAA&#8217;s decision to maintain its sponsorship deal with Allianz. Photo: Ray McManus\/Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The former All-Ireland winning Dublin footballer David Hickey has expressed &#8220;extreme&#8221; disappointment at the recommendation of the GAA&#8217;s Ethics and Integrity Committee (EIC) to maintain its sponsorship links with Allianz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Hickey said he feels that the GAA&#8217;s reputation is &#8220;damaged&#8221; as a consequence of maintaining the sponsorship and suggested the FAI &#8220;have a higher moral ground than we have in the GAA and that&#8217;s saying something.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Dublin footballer Dr David Hickey has hit out at the GAA&#8217;s decision to maintain its sponsorship deal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20965,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-201274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-colm-keys","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}