Derek Kent has been voted in as the 42nd president of the GAA.<\/p>\n
The former Leinster and Wexford chairman becomes the first uachtar\u00e1n from his county since Michael Kehoe (1949-52) and third ever including Patrick Breen (1924-26).<\/p>\n
Kent will succeed Jarlath Burns in February next year after receiving a strong mandate in the first count. With the quota being 139, Kent received 169 of the 277 votes (61%).<\/p>\n
Former Munster chairman Ger Ryan of Tipperary picked up 76 votes, while ex-Connacht chair John Murphy of Sligo won 32 votes.<\/p>\n
Speaking afterwards, Kent commiserated with his opposing candidates, describing them as \u201ctwo great friends\u201d. He insisted he will \u201calways do the right thing for the GAA\u201d and step into the background for Burns\u2019s last year as GAA president.<\/p>\n
Both Murphy and Ryan congratulated Kent in their speeches. \u201cDemocracy is a wonderful thing,\u201d said Ryan. \u201cIt\u2019s important that we had a contest.\u201d Kent had been a strong favourite since he was nominated by his county board in November. He had aired concerns about the speed of the integration process.<\/p>\n
Ryan had been hoping to become the fourth ever GAA president from Tipperary after Seamus \u00d3 Riain (1967-70), Seamus Gardiner (1943-46) and the inaugural uachtar\u00e1n Maurice Davin (1884-87).<\/p>\n
Murphy was aiming to be the first from Sligo although Larry McCarthy was attached to the Sligo club in New York when he was took office in 2021.<\/p>\n
Tubbercurry man Murphy was also looking to bridge the gap to the late Joe McDonagh (1997-2000), who was the previous president from Connacht.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derek Kent has been voted in as the 42nd president of the GAA. The former Leinster and Wexford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5658,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-321276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-irish-examiner-instagram","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321276","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=321276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}