🚨🚨Inter County teams hit record high all time spend .. 😮

John Fogarty of the Irish Examiner is reporting that some of the inter county teams around Ireland have hit a total record high of €43 million.

Galway remain the biggest spenders with €2.7m followed by Cork (€2.38m) who have climbed to second largely as a result of reaching last year’s All-Ireland senior hurling final at the expense of Limerick who replaced them in fourth position (€1.98m).

Tipperary are third on the list with €2.175m and it is the second successive year that three counties have exceeded the €2m mark after Galway and Limerick became the first to do so in 2022. Tipperary were among the first counties to break the €1m barrier when they spent €1,106,630 in 2008.

All-Ireland SFC champions Armagh’s team expenditure rose the highest from 2023, just short of €700,000 to €1.982m. Following them were Donegal whose additional spend was nigh on €600,000 to €1.861m.

That is absolutely mental, is the game professional or isn’t it? The GAA are going to have to address this sooner rather than later.