Manager's Salaries

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Surprised this hasn't been raised. Maybe I missed it on another thread apologies if I have. I see Colm Parkinson tweeting or x'ing about the cost of Colm O'Rouke at Meath and then Mickey Harte at Louth. Neither county appeared to make any attempt to hide what managers are getting paid.

Harte and team almost €140k
O'Rouke and team just over €76k

Years ago they said of under the table payments that they couldn't even find the table. Well looks like they have found it now.

The volunteer and community ethos well out the window. Would Louth not have benefitted more from investing that €140k into youth football? Instead Harte is away up the road in smoke with it.

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Parkinson's tweets

https://x.com/SmallerFishGAA/status/1732743230192549930?s=20

https://x.com/SmallerFishGAA/status/1732705818464702778?s=20

[Brendan]

Well Colm had to replace the income from his job as principal and the Sunday Game...

[Itchy]

Surprised this hasn't been raised. Maybe I missed it on another thread apologies if I have. I see Colm Parkinson tweeting or x'ing about the cost of Colm O'Rouke at Meath and then Mickey Harte at Louth. Neither county appeared to make any attempt to hide what managers are getting paid.

Harte and team almost €140k
O'Rouke and team just over €76k

Years ago they said of under the table payments that they couldn't even find the table. Well looks like they have found it now.

The volunteer and community ethos well out the window. Would Louth not have benefitted more from investing that €140k into youth football? Instead Harte is away up the road in smoke with it.

Wasnt there another 300k odd spent on senior team in Meath. You would need to see a breakdown of that to see truly what O Rourke cost and of course that excludes any under the table payments that might be coming from an external sponsor. Same for Harte I imagine.

[Saffrongael]

Well Colm had to replace the income from his job as principal and the Sunday Game...

I'm sure he had a bumper pension to replace a good portion of his salary

[Saffrongael]

Antrims fairly eye watering too

[tbrick18]

I'm assuming those figures are shared between the entire management team, so Harte/Devlin and who ever else.
Even at that it's 40K+ each. Not bad expenses.

Worst kept secret in GAA is that there's an industry for coaches/managers.

In terms of taxing, I'd assume the cost of trying to implement something or catch someone out would outweigh the amount that could be collected via tax so there's probably no desire from government to do anything.
In the grand scheme of things, there not that many people in the whole country that are getting money like what has been reported (I'd say less that 1K - 32 counties in Football/Hurling so there's a couple of hundred at most then club management).

So while it's against the ethos of the GAA, there's probably never going to be any change to it.

[intheknowhow]

Surprised this hasn't been raised. Maybe I missed it on another thread apologies if I have. I see Colm Parkinson tweeting or x'ing about the cost of Colm O'Rouke at Meath and then Mickey Harte at Louth. Neither county appeared to make any attempt to hide what managers are getting paid.

Harte and team almost €140k
O'Rouke and team just over €76k

Years ago they said of under the table payments that they couldn't even find the table. Well looks like they have found it now.

The volunteer and community ethos well out the window. Would Louth not have benefitted more from investing that €140k into youth football? Instead Harte is away up the road in smoke with it.

You expect it for free?

[seafoid]

https://www.rte.ie/sport/football/2023/1205/1420264-galway-spend-close-to-2-5m-on-team-preparation/

[thebar]

This is thread has struck accord - why has this been let slide? The payment of management teams be in county or club teams? Yet the boy on the field and in the gutters this time of year are lucky to get a pair of togs and socks? It is an amateur sport yet the chosen few make a nice wee earner out of the amateur association? What gives? 

[Kidder81]

The things is these salaries are for 6 months of the season, maybe 7. Most of the teams are gone now by June

[imtommygunn]

when do they start training though

[Mario]

Is there any county in the top 2 Divisions that wouldn't be spending 100k on their management team? Not exactly shocked by any of these figures.

[Sportacus]

This is thread has struck accord - why has this been let slide? The payment of management teams be in county or club teams? Yet the boy on the field and in the gutters this time of year are lucky to get a pair of togs and socks? It is an amateur sport yet the chosen few make a nice wee earner out of the amateur association? What gives? 

A collective failure.  A culture of wink and a nod, whether it's suspensions or payments. Goes from top to bottom - hundreds of journeymen screwing clubs for payments, more fool every committee that pays them. Absolutely no surprise therefore at county level.

[RedHand88]

Yea I don't see the big issue to be honest. Seems like a classic case of Irish begrudgement. More power to anything who spends their life in management and gets paid for it when they make it to the top.
If its easy money, away yous go and get your CV built up. Can start with a youth team in your local club and work your way up from there.