{"id":770538,"date":"2026-11-07T07:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T07:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/770538\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T07:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T07:27:18","slug":"horan-led-sgi-group-says-its-committed-to-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/770538\/","title":{"rendered":"Horan led SGI group says it’s committed to integration"},"content":{"rendered":"

The GAA’s Steering Group on Integration (SGI) has reiterated its commitment to continue building towards one association for all Gaelic games, but stopped short of offering a timeline on when this will be achieved.<\/p>\n

The SGI held their first meeting under new chairperson, John Horan, in Croke Park on Wednesday and on the back of that meeting, has issued a statement laying out plans towards bringing the GAA, Ladies Gaelic Football Association and Camogie Association together under one umbrella.<\/p>\n

That goal of integration was originally due to be completed by a deadline of April 2027, but that timeline has since been abandoned after the GAA requested time to pause and reflect on the process.<\/p>\n

Former President of Ireland Dr Mary McAleese resigned as chairperson of the SGI<\/a> in September, stating she was “dubious” that the amalgamation would successfully occur under the GAA’s current leadership.<\/p>\n

McAleese cited changes to agreed timelines, a GAA management committee that she described as “less than impressive”, and her feeling that there were “people who are not entirely happy about the idea of including women in decision-making at the top level of Gaelic sports” who were holding the process back.<\/p>\n

Today’s statement reveals that former GAA President Horan will lead a project team comprising the Ard-Sti\u00farth\u00f3ir\u00ed of the three associations with the goal of “creating a clear vision with milestones for implementation” and that they will make presentations to the three associations during the early months of 2027.<\/p>\n

That date is the only one mentioned in the statement, with no further milestones that point towards a concrete timeline for full integration.<\/p>\n

The statement also claims that the new project team “will place a particular emphasis on keeping members, volunteers and key stakeholders informed as the programme progresses”.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the meeting on Wednesday, chairperson Horan insisted that the desire and commitment for integration still exists.<\/p>\n

He said: “There remains a strong and shared commitment across all three associations to continue progressing towards One Association. Significant work has already been completed and there is a clear recognition of the opportunities that greater integration presents for our members, clubs and communities.<\/p>\n

“My priority as Chairperson is to ensure that momentum is maintained, that stakeholders are engaged in a meaningful way, and that there is clarity around the next steps as we continue this important journey together.”<\/p>\n

The statement also said the group had agreed, in principle, to establish a new full-time role dedicated to “supporting clubs in adopting the One Club model”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The GAA’s Steering Group on Integration (SGI) has reiterated its commitment to continue building towards one association for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":770539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[76],"tags":[18,19,17,132],"class_list":["post-770538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117573979331515580","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770538","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=770538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/770539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}