How GAA played foul against a president

The GAA v Douglas Hyde by Cormac Moore

**Collins Press, €15**

**Reviewed by Dermot Bolger**

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Poor old Douglas Hyde: everyone respected him, but after independence no one knew what to do with him. Hyde was an inspired choice to become Ireland's first president in 1938.

When de Valera was constructing his 1937 constitution, although the position is largely ceremonial, there was public unease that - with his signature needed to pass any ...