Introduced in 2020 under a standing playing rules committee whose leadership was retained by GAA president Larry McCarthy a year later, David Hassan is not expected to suddenly ditch what he and his colleagues insisted was a good idea.

Not to damn Liam Gordon but following Sunday’s late mistakes and based on the fate of the referees who made errors when presiding over the two previous finals his race could be run

With the benefit of hindsight, avoiding dead rubbers wasn’t a sufficient reason to reward 75% of each group with knock-out qualification

Never has a team that failed to qualify from Munster been spoken about so highly. Despite Ryan’s plea for no false platitudes, pity has landed on them in torrents

Just behind 'steps' and 'throw', 'dive' has become the biggest accusation now from the sidelines and stands and with good reason

For a variety of reasons but most of them relating to the final itself, the Ulster Council were breathing a sigh of relief at the conclusion of their senior football championship on Sunday.

Across the opening three weekends of the provincial championships, at least six high-profile head-high tackles have occurred. None were punished by a red card

While there have been some technical glitches and there is room for improvement with the production around games, it has been a reasonably good start for GAAGO

Waterford fans were conspicuous by their absence in Thurles on Sunday. Much like they were in the Gaelic Grounds last year when they were coming off the back of a Division 1 title

Do Limerick blink and change their policy of naming their match-day 15 and panel to the players two days before the game, or do try and preserve it, i.e. issue a dummy team?