Among sports reporters in the newsroom bullpen, being assigned to cover the annual convention of one of the GAA county boards is like drawing the “short straw”, as Michael Moynihan puts it.  The seasoned GAA reporter and author of GAAeconomics, the seminal book on the finances at play in Gaelic games, says that the annual briefing to county delegates on the ins and outs of the year’s activities, “can be paralyzingly dull and boring and repetitive”.  But, he says, “every now and again, something will come up, financially, that might be of interest”. And financial details of county boards have…

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