Big honour for Judge as she is selected on top GAA body

GALWAY Football Secretary Mary Judge says she is honoured to be appointed by new GAA President Larry McCarthy to sit on one of the Association’s top committees, the Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC).

Caherlistrane’s Judge was one of three women appointed by McCarthy to positions on Statutory Croke Park committees, with Donegal’s Julie Galbraith and Meath’s Aoife Farrelly appointed to the Central Appeals Committee (CAC) and Central Hearings Committee (CHC), the latter of which Tynagh/Abbey-Duniry’s Gerry Larkin is also a member.

Judge will serve on the CCCC, which decides on the scheduling of inter-county fixtures and also has responsibility for discipline within those games, for the next three years, and she says the appointment of three women to the top committees underlines how much the GAA is evolving.

“I was honoured when Larry McCarthy phoned me to ask would I sit on the CCCC at Croke Park,” she says. “It is a great honour for me to represent the club and county at national level because not many people get the opportunity.”

Once an association for men run by men, the appointment of Judge, Galbraith and Farrelly reflects the growing number of women taking on roles – be it coaching or administration – within the GAA.

“The GAA has evolved a lot; the growth of Ladies Football and Camogie is also testament to that. As well as the increasing number of women involved across all levels of the organisation from club juvenile committees up to county committees,” says Judge.

“So, I think the more that are involved the better. Anyone who wants to progress can do so. They can still go through the process and there is nothing stopping anybody achieving what they want to achieve.”

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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