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23rd April 2018
01:41pm BST

The GAA remains staunch in their attempt to maintain tradition and promote political neutrality, an approach enshrined in the organisation’s rulebook.
Members of the GAA or players are not impeded from political canvassing on their own bat, but they are not permitted to make use of club facilities while doing so. They also must not share their personal views at GAA events.
The GAA posted a statement to its website on Monday morning confirming its neutral status when it comes to political agenda. "The GAA is a non-party organisation whose individual members may, of course, decide to take positions on political issues in accordance with their own personal views and commitments. As an Association, however, the GAA does not take a position, or comment in any way, on either elections or referenda." Meanwhile, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar launched the Fine Gael campaign on Saturday which pledged that if the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution is repealed, the Government will introduce a “safe, regulated doctor-led” system in Ireland. Varadkar backed the repeal movement stating that, as a country, we need to "trust women and trust doctors."At the launch, the Taoiseach condemned the information shared on a controversial No campaign poster which appears ubiquitously around Dublin city.
“If we really believe the Eighth Amendment will result in five times as many women having an abortion - what does that say about us?
"Do we seriously believe there are large number of women in this country who give birth every year and will suddenly decide to have an abortion just because it is legal to do so? If that is the case we think very little of our women and think very little of ourselves,” he said.
“We should be a country in which we trust women and trust doctors to decide on what’s right.”
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