RADICAL new rule changes to the game of Gaelic Football will be introduced wholesale to the 2025 season having received the backing of a large majority of delegates at today’s Special Congress. The rule changes, proposed by Jim Gavin’s Football Review Committee, encompassed 49 motions spread across 18 separate votes. Every single vote passed with […]
KEVIN CASSIDY: I fear for the future of football if the rules stay the same
T’S club championship time up and down the country this weekend as all focus now turns back for the club scene. Here in Donegal we have a league format where you play four games and then based on where you finish after that will determine how and where you enter the championship. It’s a bit […]
Burns to fulfil his destiny
By Niall McCoy SHORTLY after 4.30pm on Saturday at the Canal Court Hotel in Newry, Jarlath Burns will take office of the most prestigious role in the GAA as he replaces Larry McCarthy as Uachtarán Cumann Lúthchleas Gael. It will be the culmination of decades of work in the association, not without its speed bumps, […]
Errigal have ‘clear intention’ of working towards change of underage grades
ERRIGAL Ciaran have a ‘clear intention’ of working towards change in the GAA’s underage grades despite their motion being defeated at last weekend’s Congress in Mayo. The motion, also endorsed in media circles by Vice Chairman Peter Canavan and current Antrim manager Enda McGinley, called for a change of wording in the GAA Official Guide […]
KEVIN CASSIDY – Split season is a success, but rule changes are frustrating
Kevin Cassidy analyses the news from the recent congress.
CPA say club and county players must ‘monitor delivery of new fixture arrangements’
The CPA dissolved their group this week.
Changes coming after Congress
A rule amendment that any player who receives a kick-out cannot pass it back to the goalkeeper.
John Martin: Common sense at Congress
GAELIC Life hurling columnist John Martin has praised Saturday’s Special Congress for getting most of the big issues right.
John Martin: Why did GAA change progressive proposal?
GAELIC Life hurling columnist John Martin has called on the GAA to explain why they removed one of the most progressive proposals.
John Martin: Hurling can absorb Congress blows
GAELIC Life columnist John Martin believes that the All-Ireland Hurling Championship is strong enough to absorb the blows of Congress.