{"id":199945,"date":"2025-11-25T20:22:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/199945\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:22:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:22:14","slug":"martin-breheny-gaa-should-steer-clear-of-pointless-empty-gesture-politics-and-keep-allianz-as-one-of-its-main-sponsors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/199945\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Breheny: GAA should steer clear of pointless empty-gesture politics and keep Allianz as one of its main sponsors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GAA president Jarlath Burns addressing supporters at the cup presentation after this year's Allianz Division 2 football final. Photo: Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a7ef51bf-c42e-41dc-a654-74482745d9c5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">GAA president Jarlath Burns addressing supporters at the cup presentation after this year&#8217;s Allianz Division 2 football final. Photo: Sportsfile<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The GAA\u2019s Ethics and Integrity Commission is certainly taking its time, which is indeed the ethical thing to do with a matter of such importance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tasked in September with a review of sponsorship of the National Leagues by Allianz \u2013 specifically, if it should be discontinued amid claims that the company\u2019s investments were aiding the Israeli military \u2013 they have yet to issue findings or recommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAA president Jarlath Burns addressing supporters at the cup presentation after this year&#8217;s Allianz Division 2 football final.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,68,19,17,25472,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-199945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-gaza","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-martin-breheny","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115612205272552353","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}