The disgraced John Delaney

As I understand it, and as I think is general knowledge, is that they are employed on secondment. President, or whatever the title is, is a position appointed following an election. However, it is a full time role and is generally filled by people who were previously volunteers and who have other jobs. The role is for, I think, three years only. While in the role, they continue to receive their salary from their own job but the GAA reimburse the employer for that period.

So, for example, if you are elected for a three year term but have a job that pays you €75,000 grand a year as a head teacher (sake of argument), the GAA will pay your school or the department or whoever €75k each year and you will continue to receive your salary as normal, plus (from the GAA) whatever expenses are necessarily incurred as part of the job as President. That was certainly the position when Christy Cooney was president, as reflected here: https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/cooney-defends-presidential-pay-152683.html

Now, there are full time staff in the GAA, and I don't know what the salary of the most senior person there is. I think Paraic Duffy was in a full time role there as some sort of director (Director General I believe); I think he is left now & I don't know what his salary was and I think that is not public knowledge. The structure is somewhat different from the FAI's however, and the President of the GAA certainly has more power than the Chairman of the Board of the FAI, which is probably the closest comparable position. The closest role to Delaney's is probably the role Duffy had, but that probably has less power than the role Delaney had post-Genesis.

So, in short, the salary of the Director General of the GAA does not appear to be public knowledge but the salary of the President is the same as whatever it was in their job before they were President. It's not comparing like with like but it does give some idea.