Trying to squeeze 15 months of GAA into 12 months

Today in Croke Park, Central Council will be presented with proposals from a sub-committee charged with devising a plan to introduce a calendar GAA season from 2016, writes John Fogarty.

It includes GAA director general Páraic Duffy, president Liam O’Neill, director of games administration and player welfare Feargal McGill and GPA chairman Dónal Óg Cusack.

Commissioned by Central Council on foot of their approval in principle of the Football Review Committee’s original recommendation, the group’s blueprint will involve moving the national club finals from March to the previous December and pushing each of the All-Ireland finals back by at least a week.