Slaughtneil and Derry’s Chrissy McKaigue sense the players’ voices are being ignored by the GAA in terms of the fixtures schedule, competition structures, and playing rules.

Tyrone boss Mickey Harte fears the GAA is losing sight of what its games are about, amid a rush to introduce changes to gaelic football’s playing rules.

The GAA’s national fixtures task force will meet again on Wednesday before their report is launched early next month.

The GAA’s national fixtures task force will meet again on Wednesday before their report is launched early next month.

Club Players Association (CPA) executive member Liam Griffin claims the body was “never welcomed” by the GAA.

There is a curious notion doing the rounds. This notion imagines that the great challenge in making a success of the GAA’s new All-Ireland B Football Championship is one of marketing.

The Mayo GAA executive are facing pressure from Croke Park and their clubs following their non-attendance at last Saturday’s Special Congress in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Club Players Association (CPA) chairman Micheál Briody fears Saturday’s decision to back a Tier 2 inter-county football competition will scupper the chances of the GAA’s fixtures review committee’s own T2 proposal being back in February.

At this stage, it’s well known that the GAA are intent on changing the scheduling of the Super 8 in 2020.

Introduce the clock/hooter system or today’s sin bin proposal risks being a disaster, warns former Football Review Committee (FRC) member Paul Earley.

Derry have confirmed they will vote against the proposed second-tier football championship, with Clare expected to do likewise at tomorrow’s Special Congress.

Leitrim, Limerick, Sligo, Waterford, and Wicklow will support the creation of a second-tier football championship at Special Congress on October 19.

Cork manager Ronan McCarthy is opposed to the introduction of a second-tier football championship.

The standing playing rules committee meet this week to finalise which of the experimental Gaelic football rules will be voted on at next month’s Special Congress in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Kerry manager Peter Keane prefers the old-style All-Ireland quarter-final structure, believing the Super 8s to be fostering an environment whereby the “rich get richer and the poor get poorer”.

GAA president John Horan has asked the newly formed fixtures review group to bring three proposals to Congress 2020 in a bid to resolve the Association’s calendar crisis.

The loneliness of a long-distance runner is nothing compared to the isolation and fear experienced by the principal of a one-teacher school, the INTO annual congress has heard.

Male fertility may be declining but there are steps you can take to rebuild it, says Peta Bee.

A paltry scoring return suggests the advanced mark is not making a significant impact on Gaelic football.

Special Congress will attract more attention than this weekend’s Annual Congress, as it deals with a greater number of topical issues.

Several counties are in line to benefit from plans to allow U20 footballers on senior panels to return to play in the U20 inter-county championship so long as the seniors have been knocked out of the All-Ireland SFC.

John Fogarty on the biggest motions to go under the microscope at the GAA's annual congress.

The decision to bring forward the date of the All-Ireland hurling final to mid-August was a mistake, according to Tipperary manager Michael Ryan.

The Club Players Association (CPA) has called on GAA members to back a motion to ensure voting transparency at the GAA annual congress.

Miniscule club activity during the month of July is behind the Cork proposal to introduce a hurling Super 8s.

Family and work commitments may convince Derek McGrath to step down as Waterford manager but he and his management will now take time out to consider their positions.

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.

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.

Shimon Peres was a gifted leader, an eloquent speaker, and a source of ideas. But most important, he was a leader who had a vision and a message, writes Itamar Rabinovich

David Haye has hit out at “insane” plans to allow professional boxers to compete at the Olympics, warning it would put fighters’ health and safety at serious risk.

This month marks year nine of Páraic Duffy’s term as GAA director general.

It was only a matter of time before this video began doing the rounds again.

Football appears to be at a crossroads today as Sepp Blatter remains defiant in the face of a threatened revolution from Uefa as the shockwaves from Fifa’s “seismic” corruption scandal continued to rock the global game.

Primary school teachers are under an increasing amount of stress in the workplace, according to research which shows the extent of the problem.