Our writers chat through the main talking points from the weekend’s Allianz League action.

Last weekend the Johnstown Estate in Enfield was crammed with new inter-county players — over 100 members of the GPA and WGPA were on hand for the second annual GPA Rookie Camp.

Former footballer of the year Bernard Brogan has announced his retirement from inter-county football.

The Gaelic Players’ Association will likely propose the introduction of a concussion sub rule at next year’s annual congress.

Dublin legend Tony Hanahoe spoke to Michael Moynihan on football in the capital, why he doesn’t favour professionalism, and remembering the late Anton O’Toole.

Kerry hurling manager Fintan O’Connor has urged GAA chiefs to introduce live streaming of Joe McDonagh Cup games so as to improve the competition’s profile.

Two months ago, The Daily Telegraph produced a brilliant piece on the lifelessness of Premier League footballers’ social media activity around matches. More often than not perfunctory, bland, and regularly worded and/or sent by the players’ representatives who are responsible for their Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram accounts, they symbolise how the game at its elite level has lost so much of its soul.

The GAA should consider staging more Saturday evening games for the sake of attracting crowds and to help player welfare, says Anthony Nash.

GPA founder Donal O’Neill believes Dermot Earley’s departure as chief executive after less than 12 months indicates how unattractive the organisation has become as the GAA now “own their ass”.

Quite the week for the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) last week. We don’t mean the launch of their terribly vague three-year strategic plan but how they chose to run it against a GAA event involving an official associate sponsor.

I signed up as a member to the Club Players Association this week. I believe that the CPA is very much on the side of right when it comes to the fixtures issue. I also believe the interests of the GPA and the CPA are not mutually exclusive.

Considering their flimsy challenge to the All-Ireland round-robin series, there will be questions asked about the GPA’s intentions, writes John Fogarty.

There was a changing of the guard at the Kerry GAA Convention in Tralee last night, with Tim Murphy (Brosna) assuming the chair as Patrick O’Sullivan completed his five-year term.

Seán Potts has had a front row seat for the GPA’s journey from the margins to a seat at the table in Croke Park. There’s been setbacks, turbulent episodes and cheap shots along the way — and there’s probably more to come. But he’s saying farewell to an established inter-county players’ voice now...

The new chairman of the Gaelic Players Association fields an obvious point early in the conversation.

There’s a strong possibility there will be no call to change the structure of the All-Ireland SFC arising from today’s Central Council meeting in Croke Park.

Seamus Callanan is refusing to blame a five-week break for Tipperary’s demise to Galway last month - but would like to be playing more championship matches.

So will the GPA find consensus among its members on this latest idea of theirs to restructure the All-Ireland senior football championship?

Players chief Dessie Farrell claims Gaelic games have taken on a “sinister” edge in recent seasons.

Confirmation that a GAA player has tested positive for a banned substance was inevitable, according to Gaelic Players Association (GPA) chief executive Dessie Farrell.

Tommy Walsh has retired from inter-county hurling this morning.

Colm O’Rourke is no stranger to controversy, but even he was startled by the backlash that followed his column criticising the Gaelic Players’ Association.

Former Roscommon footballer Shane Curran has launched a scathing attack on the GPA, claiming the player representative body has been consumed by Croke Park.

Limerick’s scoring hero Shane Dowling yesterday condemned critics who had poured abuse on him and his teammates.

When the GAA and the GPA bring the streamlined Super 11s hurling to the campus of Notre Dame on Saturday, they’ll be hoping the skills and the speed do all the talking.

READING a biography of someone you met many times both professionally and socially is an interesting experience. Will the book reveal things about its subject that you didn’t know?

On Sunday, they will rut. Aidan and Sean. Sean and Aidan. The two best midfielders in the country as things stand. The stand-out performers across the four All-Ireland quarter-finals.

At the time, Henry Shefflin admitted he didn’t know what The Stepford Wives were.

The US vice-president, Joe Biden, is to fulfil a long-standing promise to come to Ireland later this year, when he is expected to visit his ancestral home in the Taoiseach’s native Co Mayo.

First off, a round of applause for the folks in Croke Park.

Then we said goodnight to Broadway

New York will host one of the National League finals as part of their county board’s centenary celebrations in 2014.

The concept of a high-profile championship or league game in the US could shortly be put to the GAA.