Pat Gilroy: The GAA is going global, and it needs to protect its values
Could Gaelic games become the target of a billionaire media tycoon like Australian Kerry Packer, who 40 years ago split the world of cricket and forced the game into professionalism?
Kerry Packer has been on Pat Gilroy’s mind lately.
Who’s Kerry Packer, you might ask?
Kerry Packer is the Australian billionaire who in 1977, having been rebuffed in his efforts to buy the television rights to cricket, spent a fortune to create a world series of cricket - in direct opposition to cricket’s established leagues - to which he signed some of the game’s biggest names.
It kicked off a cricket civil war, ...
