GAA Congress

GAA Special Congress explainer: Football changes expected to sail into the rule book

FRC chair Jim Gavin likely to take a lower-key role in the political circumstances

GAA special congresses occasionally necessary but at this stage, overused and disruptive

New football rules may require events like next Saturday’s but they could be virtual or ideally, smaller

Denis Walsh: GAA must take a leap on paying managers and deal with the consequences

Piety about amateurism belongs to a bygone era

GAA Congress is well past its use-by date as a governing forum

Shooting down of motion to align rule on kit and equipment manufacture with EU law reflected badly on everyone

Five things we learned from the GAA weekend: Football is for forwards again, and Mayo find some x-factor

Cork rue lack of efficiency in front of goal; Jarlath Burns says he is concentrating on just one presidency

GAAGo gone as association moves forward with re-branded GAA+

Hurling handpass reform rejected at congress but football championship change sails through

Jarlath Burns criticises DUP’s Gordon Lyons for failing to engage with GAA on Casement Park

GAA president says Northern Ireland Communities Minister is yet to attend GAA match

D-Day for Conor O’Donovan’s 17-year crusade to clean up the handpass

Tipperary All-Ireland winner takes his case to GAA annual congress

Family of Seán Brown introduced by Jarlath Burns at opening session of GAA congress

Daughter of murdered Bellaghy club man thanks delegates and asks for continued support

Proposal to allow GAA clubs make facilities available to other sports to be voted on at Congress

Proposal by Central Council on a new All-Ireland SFC and Tailteann Cup format from 2026

Noel McCaffrey: Clubs need a rebalance - please don’t sit on the fence

Clontarf proposal requires players to play at least four club matches to be eligible for intercounty

Unshackled from tradition, the GAA has made change the new normal

New rules for Gaelic football show what may be possible when we break from the status quo

Jim Gavin: ‘This is a great opportunity for our games, not to be continuously searching out the dark matter in life’

GAA special congress approved FRC’s new football rules, with clubs added to the experiment

GAA Congress approves Gaelic football’s new rules for 2025

Former president Liam O’Neill argued that ‘if we refuse to change, we can’t improve’

FRC want to see successful new rules applied at both club and county level in 2025

Former Kerry player and selector Éamonn Fitzmaurice says 96 per cent of players are club players so it is important they get the chance to try out the enhanced rules as soon as possible

GAA Congress explainer: It’s the most wonderful time of the year

Saturday’s important meeting will see delegates gather to decide on a range of rule changes proposed by the Football Review Committee

Seán Moran: FRC proposals deserve to be trialled but referees also need enhanced support

The most important group in implementing any of the GAA's rule changes have to feel less neglected

Seán Moran: Policing amateurism in the modern GAA almost requires the skills of Elliott Ness

Jarlath Burns’s presidency has prioritised concerns for football and amateur status. Football is proving comparatively plain sailing

Four-point goal is dropped from new football rules to go before GAA Central Council

FRC’s proposed rule reforms will go before Council, with debate set to continue over suspension of preseason tournaments

Ciarán Murphy: Whatever rules are put before Central Council should be accepted. There is very little left to lose

The best players and managers available to the GAA showed up in Croke Park last week. That’s a statement admitting the game has to change

Tactical analysis: Raiders of the arc will find reward under new Gaelic football rules

The 40-metre arc could be a huge influence on the game, and will affect both attacking and kickout strategies

We’re ready to join GAA’s new dance but someone will have to count us in

TV View: Your heart had to go out to the people tasked with updating the scores in Croke Park - and the FAI Cup final for that matter

Darragh Ó Sé: Jim Gavin did a great sales pitch but referees set to be under pressure to make new rules work

What the FRC needed was for teams to misbehave — the rules will be properly tested only when used in competitive games

Tim Healy: ‘We are actually paying guys to make football less attractive at club level’

Member of previous FRC believes GAA should limit payments to outside managers to €20,000 per head at intercounty level and €3,000, €5,000 at club level

Seán Moran: Let’s hope Jim Gavin’s FRC isn’t the latest example of squandered expertise

For years the GAA has benefited from the work of highly qualified volunteers only to ignore their recommendations

Football Review Committee consider new ‘overtime showdown’ as alternative to penalty shoot-outs

New format could even serve as an extra-time option as chairman Jim Gavin says FRC is ‘on track’ to deliver rule changes on schedule

Nicky English: Hurling being undermined by the crammed calendar of the last three years

We’ve now reached a situation where only the All-Ireland semi-finals and final are being played at the height of summer – the prime time for hurling

Seán Moran: Oasis concerts a red herring - GAA needs a proper rethink on season structure

Whether the new schedules work or not needs data-driven analysis, not a series of unco-ordinated reactions

Denis Walsh: Two tiers are not enough for the football championship, it needs three

Denis Walsh: The GAA's preferred option for change to the football championship is better than the current flawed system but a more radical rejig is required

Darragh Ó Sé: Once you put Jim Gavin in charge of something, there’s no sniggering down the back

Whatever you think about the Football Review Committee, the game has got itself into a state and it finally feels like someone is taking the problem seriously

GAA: Latest easing of under-20 restrictions signals death of development grade

Original idea behind introducing under-20 championship was to ring-fence elite players good enough for senior

Burns takes office looking to soccer for solutions to curb intercounty spending

The GAA’s new president seeks a review of amateur status, including the prospect of licensing teams to compete

Jarlath Burns makes Jim Gavin chair of the Football Review Committee

New GAA president has been impressed with the former Dublin manager’s ‘higher-level thinking skills’

Jarlath Burns promises to ‘stop the runaway train’ of intercounty team budgets

GAA Congress: Incoming president will establish a new amateur status committee

Larry McCarthy calls for proper investigation into Seán Brown’s murder

GAA Congress: Outgoing president recalls toughest day in office at trial of former Crossmaglen treasurer Thomas McKenna

Seven-day gap between matches for under-20 players reduced to 60 hours

GAA Congress: Cork motion passes by 72 per cent to 28

GAA Congress: Seán Kelly suggests midweek replays for draws after extra-time

GAA's Annual Congress in Newry’s Canal Court Hotel to herald start of Jarlath Burns’ presidency

Jarlath Burns: After a perfectly conducted apprenticeship, a daunting agenda looms

An accomplished administrator and communicator, he knows that only so much can be done in three years

GAA aiming to bring Gaelic games to the Olympics

Association’s international body looking to secure recognition from the International Olympic Committee to broaden ‘global reach’

Smallest GAA congress motions list in 20 years contains little of major importance

A couple of proposals to roll back recent reforms plus a few modest changes down for discussion in Newry

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