A proposal to have county boards make sworn statements that no unauthorised payments are being made to team managers is causing a rift in the GAA.
While there is general endorsement for the proposal, opposing factions have very different views as to how the statement should be sworn. “Some of the younger, more progressive members favour the modern ‘pinkie swear’ but the conservative majority refuse to entertain it,” a source said.
“They prefer the traditional ‘Cross my heart and hope to die, cut my throat if I tell a lie’ approach,” the source added.
“It hardly matters which method is used once the person swearing the statement remembers to keep his fingers crossed behind his back,” an expert in lying under oath said.
