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Tue 10 Oct 2007Brennan says talk of striking is not helpingGAELIC GAMES:GAA president Nickey Brennan has defended the association in the face of rising dissatisfaction from the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) over the failure to agree channels of distribution for the €5 million welfare grants promised to the players earlier in the year by the Government.The impasse, which has led to talk of a players' strike from GPA chief executive Dessie Farrell - who has pursued the grants issue over a number of years - arose when the government proposed to make the money available to the GAA in infrastructure grants on the basis that the association could then write the cheque for the players itself.