Eamonn Fitzmaurice’s new Kerry management team was formally unveiled last night, and will feature leading physical trainer Cian O’Neill as a selector.

WESTMEATH County Board chairman Tom Farrell called on the GAA to respect its amateur status and said any change in policy can only be implemented by voluntary officials.

THE CORK County Board insisted yesterday that it did not have €2 million earmarked for a GAA centre of excellence in the city “sitting in the bank”, contrary to suggestions made at the Cork GAA clubs forum report launch on Sunday night.

THE CORK County Board is sitting on a €2 million allocation from Croke Park for a GAA centre of excellence in the county, with negotiations on a location for the centre with Cork City Council at a “delicate stage”, it emerged last night.

THE future of the International Rules Series could come under scrutiny at the GAA’s Congress in April if a motion submitted by Tyrone is deemed fit for debate.

Cork GAA chairman Jerry O'Sullivan urged the striking Cork senior hurlers to return to action by issuing an open letter to the 2008 squad on Wednesday night.

Tyrone has become the latest county board to pass a motion against grants to GAA players.

TIPPERARY should offer to play a tournament game against Fermanagh some time next year as a goodwill gesture, following the controversial decision to opt out of the Bank of Ireland football championship qualifier against them early in the summer.

ONLY three members of the Cork senior hurling panel turned up at last weekend’s County Board celebratory dinner at Moran’s, Silver Springs Hotel.