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Larry McCarthy (sports administrator)

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Larry McCarthy, known in Irish as Labhras Mac Carthaigh, is a Gaelic games administrator born in 1954 who served as president of the Gaelic Athletic Association from 2021 to 2024. A native of Bishopstown in Cork city, he joined the Sligo football club in New York and held several posts with New York GAA, including secretary and chairman, and sat as a Central Council delegate. By profession he is a university lecturer at the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University. Elected a GAA trustee in 2018, he became president-elect in February 2020 as the first person from overseas to do so and took office at the 2021 Congress, which was held remotely because of COVID-19 restrictions.

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1954 1
Gender
Male 1
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1. Larry McCarthy (sports administrator) (Wikipedia)
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    born 1954
  • Career
    He formally became president at the 2021 GAA Congress
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