Seán McCague was a patient reformer during one of GAA’s most transformative periods
Former GAA presidents Seán McCague and Christy Cooney. Photo: Sportsfile
It would be a hard one to square in a current context but when Seán McCague took over from Mickey Duffy, father of former GAA Director-General Páraic, as Monaghan’s Central Council delegate in 1986, he was still the county’s senior team manager in the middle of, arguably, their most successful periods ever.
It set McCague, who died on Thursday, aged 77, on a path to the highest administrative office some 13 years later, when he won a vote in a landslide to succeed Joe McDonagh as GAA president.
