The standing playing rules committee have amended three of their five proposed changes to Gaelic football.

James McCarthy claims more players are trying to con match officials into black carding opponents.

Derry, March 23, 2013. Overcome with emotion, Football Review Committee chairman Eugene McGee sheds a tear upon the announcement that the black card, against the odds, has received 71% support and will come into rule.

There is no chance of the black card being ditched from Gaelic football, according to GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghail.

The GAA’s standing playing rules committee meets in Croke Park this evening where the black card is certain to be discussed.

Few smiles have been raised this summer when the ‘black card’ has come up in conversations, and this column doesn’t aim to change that.

The argument is over football's black card rule.

I was at a club game a couple of weeks back where, almost from the throw-in, the referee assumed the role of main protagonist.

The lack of competitive games this weekend ensured they passed without any major controversy, even as we get close to the summit of the football season.

Rule 5.14 of the playing rules of Gaelic football states that to use threatening or provocative language against an opponent is an immediate black card offence.

Thank God for the Ulster Championship! High intensity warfare packed with so many off-the-ball incidents that no amount of cameramen, never mind referees and officials, could possibly identify the culprits.

GAA Congress delegates have this morning decided not to implement a Black Card for Hurling, but the one-on-one penalty has been adopted.

The GAA have been hit by a second black card controversy in as many weeks after yesterday’s Ulster quarter-final in Derry.

Between them, tomorrow’s semi-finalists Dublin and Cork have picked up just three black cards in 14 games. Mayo and Derry’s total is just the same and Jim Gavin believes the new rule is having its desired effect.