The four All-Ireland senior hurling semi-finalists are facing a dock to their team holiday funding should they reach next month\u2019s final.<\/p>\n
Clare, Cork, Galway and Limerick have yet to arrange press briefings for this weekend\u2019s games. Grants distributed by Central Council to finalists are contingent on engagement with national and local media at this stage of the season.<\/p>\n
Galway organised a briefing for local journalists only last week as they did for the Leinster final. Cork captain Darragh Fitzgibbon and Clare\u2019s Se\u00e1n Rynne spoke to the national media last week as part of a commercial promotion with competition sponsors Eir.<\/p>\n
This Thursday, The Banner\u2019s 2024 hurler of the year Shane O\u2019Donnell is available for interviews as he launches a Gaelic Players Association\u2019s (GPA) collaboration with Irish nutrition brand Nuvion in Croke Park.<\/p>\n
However, as none of those events are considered official briefings they will not be enough for Clare and Cork to avoid reductions to their would-be team holiday funds.<\/p>\n
Clare and Limerick are already set to be docked for not sending a representative to the All-Ireland SHC launch in Blarney earlier this month. Limerick were not in a position to do so as it is understood players were required to be in Cork on Monday evening and the group were celebrating their Munster final victory the day before.<\/p>\n
In 2024, All-Ireland champions Clare along with Armagh successfully lobbied the GAA\u2019s Management Committee for the team holiday funds to be increased due to the two-week turnaround between the semi-final and final.<\/p>\n
They argued that there was not enough time to fundraise in the 14 or 15 days and the funds for the winners were increased from \u20ac80,000 to \u20ac150,000, a jump of almost 90%. The larger sum is given to each of the four senior finalists and is partly funded by their respective provinces.<\/p>\n
At Congress last year, GAA president Jarlath Burns cited that there was \u201cnot one interview\u201d in the two-week build-up to the 2024 All-Ireland SHC semi-finals.<\/p>\n
In a step to secure their media co-operation, he outlined: \u201cUnder a proposed new arrangement, access to post-finals team holiday funding will be linked to measured media access around the national launches of our All-Ireland championships and games in the knockout phases of our All-Ireland series. Failure to assist will impact on the funding available for team holidays for winning teams.\u201d Burns argued coverage in the lead-up to games was important. \u201cNotwithstanding the demands on all of those involved with county teams, we cannot complain about airtime and print space afforded to our codes if we do not facilitate it.\u201d Ahead of last year\u2019s All-Ireland semi-finals, all but Dublin organised press conferences. Cork, Kilkenny and Tipperary staged in-person events. For the football semi-finals, Kerry, Meath and Tyrone scheduled briefings. Donegal didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
For this year\u2019s provincial finals, Cork, Dublin and Limerick managers and players spoke to the media in conferences at their bases in P\u00e1irc U\u00ed Chaoimh, Parnell Park and Gaelic Grounds.<\/p>\n
In his address in February, Burns commended the GPA\u2019s acknowledgement in their strategic plan that there is \u201cthe need for enhanced media engagement\u201d.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cThe men and women who play at the highest level of Gaelic games are outstanding ambassadors for their generation. These young, intelligent, well-educated and articulate people have inherited our national games and through their dedication and devotion are custodians of Ireland\u2019s living cultural heritage and help pass it on to the next generation.<\/p>\n
\u201cManagements who gag them and prevent them from exposure promoting our games do them and us a disservice, and I am pleased to report that our request for improved media relations from inter-county teams has seen improvement \u2013 one that needs to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The four All-Ireland senior hurling semi-finalists are facing a dock to their team holiday funding should they reach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30040,30041,30883,1964,61,60,17406,43],"class_list":["post-523786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-all-ireland-hurling-final","tag-clare-gaa","tag-galway-gaa","tag-cork-gaa","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick-gaa","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523786","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=523786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}