Larry McCarthy (sports administrator)

rdf:langString Larry McCarthy (sports administrator)

rdf:langString Larry McCarthy

rdf:langString Larry McCarthy

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rdf:langString Larry McCarthy, GAA President

rdf:langString Labhrás Mac Carthaigh

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rdf:langString University lecturer

rdf:langString Larry McCarthy (Irish: Labhrás Mac Carthaigh; born 1954) is a Gaelic games administrator who is current president of the GAA. A native of Bishopstown, in the city of Cork, he is a member of the Sligo football club in New York and has served with New York GAA in a number of capacities, including secretary, chairman and Central Council delegate. McCarthy received his secondary education at Coláiste Éamann Rís - Cork City. He attended Thomond College of Education for his Bachelor's Degree, has a Master's Degree from New York University, and a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. He is a university lecturer by profession, working at the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University in New Jersey since 1998. At the GAA Congress in 2018, he was elected as one of the GAA’s trustees while he was also part of the Strategic Review Committee during the same year under the stewardship of John Horan. Previously, he sat on the Towards 150 Committee under Aogán Ó Fearghail. He served on the Central Council for three years and was a member of the GAA Finance Committee.[1] He became president-elect of the GAA in February 2020, the first overseas person to do so. He formally became president at the 2021 GAA Congress, held remotely due to Covid-19 Pandemic restrictions. He flew into Ireland and isolated himself in Dublin (this being before quarantine was strictly enforced) ahead of formally taking on the presidency, during which he is based in Dublin. He is married to Barbara, from Malahide, Co. Dublin, and together they have two grown sons, Conor and Shane.

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