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to improve the standard of the player's performances. A novel technique Duffy pioneered was the filming of matches and then holding video analysis sessions with the team afterwards, with the intent to identify the causes of performance drops. As a result of their steady improvements, Monaghan won
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Duffy worked hard to raise revenues for the GAA, with the €60 million total recorded in 2016 being over double the amount received by the organization in 2006. One of the more controversial decisions of Duffy's tenure was the broadcasting deal the GAA signed with
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decisions were taken to increase financial revenues for the GAA, the vast majority of which were then invested in
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for the first time in 41 years when they defeated
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voted against restricting the TV rights to free-to-air broadcasters at its 2016 annual conference, adding that
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in 2014, which entailed a number of live senior All-Ireland
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