Address to Seanad Éireann by GAA President, Mr. Larry McCarthy
Seanad Éireann — 2023-04-26
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Jerry Buttimer (CC), Labour Panel

This process will bring further parity of treatment for all players, but especially female players within the Gaelic games family. As we know, sometimes sport can be inaccessible to many people in our society for a variety of reasons. I welcome the efforts of Cumann Lúthchleas Gael to embrace its role and responsibilities as a powerful agent for social integration and inclusion through its diversity and inclusion programmes. In recent years, the GAA has demonstrated a commitment to offer that sense of belonging to everyone irrespective of gender, marital status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, race, minority, community or disability. On a personal level, I pay tribute to the GAA for its leadership, support and all its work for the first LGBTQ+ inclusive GAA club, na Gaeil Aeracha, the Rainbow Gaels. We wish that club every success.

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Sitting date: 2023-04-26