A Special Congress to alter the format of the All-Ireland senior hurling championship in time for next year is strongly mooted to take place this October.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy has given the Club Players Association’s (CPA) call to shelve football championship proposals short shrift and encouraged them to formulate their own SFC structure.

The Mayo County Board have acceded to a request by senior manager Stephen Rochford to postpone club championship games fixed for this weekend until the week after the September 18 All-Ireland final, writes John Fogarty of the Irish Examiner.

Last year’s Munster SFC final replay in Killarney played a major part in the provincial council reporting a jump of almost €1m in total gate receipts from 2014.

GAMESMANSHIP, "negative possession", "over analysis" and "deliberate concession of line balls" are four of the reasons behind Central Council’s proposal to repel the public clock/hooter rule.

Three of the four provincial chairmen have backed the GAA calendar year workgroup’s call to provide All-Ireland semi-finalists with byes in the irrespective code’s provincial club championships.

Two county chairmen have expressed reservations about proposals to implement a GAA calendar season.

Next Sunday at Skibbereen, Michael Toal returns from retirement to play Christy Mullins in the feature score of a benefit weekend for CoAction.

The GAA’s fixtures chief Simon Moroney is convinced proposals aimed at streamlining the All-Ireland senior championships will benefit club’s scheduling.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy has promised the strongest marketing drive for the forthcoming All-Ireland senior championships.

RTÉ last night admitted the “current financial climate” is impacting on its highlights coverage of the Allianz Leagues.

CONOR MORTIMER admits he found it difficult to watch Mayo games during his season on the sidelines last year.

KERRY’S domination of gaelic football in this country could be brought to a shuddering halt not by Dublin, Cork or Tyrone, but by the rapid depopulation of huge rural swathes of the county, a worrying new report has warned.

Veteran Tyrone footballer Brian Dooher has called time on his inter-county career. The 36-year-old has confirmed his retirement after a 16-year run with the Red Hands.

KERRY chairman Jerome Conway has hit out those calling for the introduction of an open draw in the All-Ireland senior championships.

THIS year is the 125th anniversary of the foundation of the GAA, and from the start of the season it has been celebrated accordingly, with all kinds of high-profile events, most spectacularly the night-time fireworks display at the opening NFL game in Croke Park between Tyrone and Dublin.

MUNSTER Council chairman Sean Fogarty is adamant that Croke Park must not host non-GAA sports until development work on Lansdowne Road commences.

WITH the All-Ireland senior championships at the final stage, the attention is slowly but surely drifting back towards the club campaign nationwide.