{"id":216501,"date":"2025-12-05T08:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/216501\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:55:11","slug":"dermot-crowe-jarlath-burns-takes-aim-at-planning-and-local-authorities-as-gaa-tries-to-tackle-existential-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/216501\/","title":{"rendered":"Dermot Crowe: Jarlath Burns takes aim at planning and local authorities as GAA tries to tackle \u2018existential crisis\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Shifting living patterns have created serious challenges for countless clubs, with 11-a-side games being proposed to help those short on numbers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"GAA president Jarlath Burns (right) and Benny Hurl, the GAA National Demographics Committee chairman, at Croke Park yesterday. Photo: Seb Daly\/Sportsfile\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1231510e-aa8a-4f8b-93f1-1b8efec87024.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 (right) and Benny Hurl, the GAA National Demographics Committee chairman, at Croke Park yesterday. Photo: Seb Daly\/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 impact of demographic change on the GAA was laid bare in a report launched in Croke Park yesterday by president Jarlath Burns, who warned: \u201cIf we lose clubs, we lose communities\u201d.<\/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 value of communities in Irish life was a central theme where Burns challenged the assertion of Margaret Thatcher\u2019s that there is no such thing as community, just individuals who want to better themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shifting living patterns have created serious challenges for countless clubs, with 11-a-side games being proposed to help those&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,1007,26709,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-216501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-croke-park","11":"tag-dermot-crowe","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-latest-news","19":"tag-latestnews","20":"tag-main-news","21":"tag-mainnews","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115666126554753492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216501","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=216501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}