Damian Stack: Kerry GAA's commercial director move shows the business of sport is business
Kerryman
Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States in the roaring twenties, is purported to have said that the business of America is business. There's some debate as to whether he exactly said those precise words, no matter, they've gone down in history or at least in popular memory
A century later, despite a great depression (which Coolidge's policies might have helped bring about), a great recession, and several other blips in between, what Coolidge said (or didn't exactly say) remains very much the case.
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