Leinster GAA secretary Michael Reynolds claims the province is open to the idea of All-Ireland senior football championship commencing with the four provincial conferences of eight teams.

The Intermediate and Junior Football semi-finals take place this Saturday, with Kerry and Monaghan represented in both grades.

TG4 has announced details of 52 GAA games they will cover in early 2020, including 30 Allianz League matches.

It’s not today or yesterday but Coman Goggins remembers a time when Dublin players celebrated Leinster semi-final wins by breaking out the boogie bus.

While Cork C of I are the only Munster side in the men’s EY Hockey League, the Garryduff outfit view tomorrow’s game with Dublin’s Pembroke (Garryduff, 2.30pm) as their main derby for the season.

For St Finbarr’s, hope comes through the bloom of youth.

Cork ’s senior administrator Diarmuid O’Donovan believes attempts to finish All-Ireland Club championships in a calendar year would have "serious consequences" for grassroots fixtures.

Kerry GAA officials have expressed "grave doubts" about the workability of a Central Council plan to complete all competitions in the calendar year.

One of the first proponents of bringing All-Ireland finals forward has reservations about the practicality of completing the club season in the calendar year.

Inter-county footballers have given the thumbs-up to the majority of the Football Review Committee’s second report to be voted on at Central Council today.

The death-knell for the much-maligned International Rules could toll on Saturday as the majority of counties are set to vote against its continuation.

Cork have given short shrift to all but one of the Football Review Committee’s competition structure proposals.

From the Academy Awards to the All-Ireland Club championships, Ellen DeGeneres has a lot to answer for now that a host of GAA players have gotten in on the group selfie act.

Ulster 2-26 Leinster 3-21 (aet)

It wasn’t Marc Ó Sé’s idea to miss the first two rounds of the Allianz football league.

Referees chief Pat McEnaney said provincial councils will be advised to appoint established referees to January’s pre-season games as a means of ensuring a smoother bedding-in process for the black card.

He will be an old style uachtarán. He will be a figurehead and an ambassador.

Ireland’s premier hockey league gets a new lease of life this weekend after undergoing some major structural changes.

Leinster GAA chairman Martin Skelly has welcomed the return of Antrim to the Walsh Cup and also the inclusion of more Ulster hurling teams in the Kehoe Cup competition.

De La Salle 1-21 Dungarvan 0-12

We had the launch of the new Hurling Development Plan last week, and it was nice to hear Liam O’Neill, the incoming GAA president, talking about growing the game nationwide.

GAA president Christy Cooney has intimated the poor attendances at this last weekend’s Interprovincial Series confirm his belief the competition is dead.

Tyrone club Derrytresk are free to contest this Sunday's AIB All-Ireland JFC final against Clonbur, with a number of restrictions in place, after the violence that marred their recent semi-final victory over Dromid Pearses in Portlaoise.

CORK Church of Ireland senior men’s player/coach, Andrew Chambers, died suddenly on Saturday.

AFTER the disappointing outcome of a certain World Cup qualifier between Ireland and France earlier this year, the suggestion that the referee “should have gone to Specsavers” became a common complaint.

IT’S only the early stages of the GAA season but already Michael McDermott is a busy man.

Reports linking Oisin McConville with a return to the Armagh senior football panel have been dismissed by the player himself.

THE GAA must look at changing its calendar to ensure that the All-Ireland club championships are concluded in the first week of December if it is serious about tackling burnout.

SUNDAY’S historic Six Nations game between Ireland and France in Croke Park has sparked widespread alterations in next weekend’s GAA programme.

Galway manager Conor Hayes has made two changes in personnel and a number of positional switches for tomorrow's NHL Division 1B clash with Limerick (Pearse Stadium, throw-in 2.30pm).

Annadale’s David Smyth has returned to Ireland’s squad for a tri-nations event against Canada and Italy after an 18-month absence.

COLIN CORKERY won his second straight AIB GAA provincial player award in the AIB Bankcentre yesterday, while Athenry’s star forward Eugene Cloonan became the first player to win three awards.