The Camogie Association has altered competition protocol pertaining to the All-Ireland senior championship to avoid a repeat of the coin toss controversy which marred the 2015 edition.

The Clare and Dublin camogie teams will learn of their championship fate via a YouTube video this morning.

Sinn Féin delegates last night overwhelmingly voted down a motion which would have given its members a free vote on the issue of abortion.

A boost in revenues from the GAA’s “prawn sandwich brigade” contributed to operating profits at the firm that runs Croke Park almost doubling last year to €8m.

Written in stone, that would appear to be the case for both the Munster and Leinster championships after the GAA’s Coiste Bainistí (Management Committee) released its proposals for the hurling championship format for the years ‘2014 to 2016 and beyond’.

The company that manages Croke Park for the GAA paid €3.5m to the Ard Chomhairle in 2011, down from €7m in 2010 and the €10m paid in 2009.

A special meeting of the Fianna Fáil Árd Chomhairle held last night has endorsed party leader Micheál Martin's response to the Mahon tribunal final report.

Around 95 members of the Fianna Fáil ard chomhairle will meet next Friday evening to vote on the expulsion of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, former EU commissioner Pádraig Flynn and three former county councillors.

THE Croke Park management company handed over €7 million last year to the Ard Chomhairle, the central council of the GAA, a €10m drop on 2009.

The Hawk-Eye technology system, which has been adopted so successfully in professional tennis and cricket, will be tested at Croke Park next month.

THE Croke Park management company handed over €17 million to the Ard Chomhairle last year, the central council of the GAA, a €1.5m increase on 2008.

VETERAN GAA administrator Seamas O’Brien of Waterford says clubs are losing their authority in the association, which he describes as a “very dangerous development”.

THE Croke Park management company handed over €15 million to the Ard Chomhairle, the central council of the GAA last year, a €1.5m increase on 2007.

THE Croke Park management company handed over €13.5m to the Ard Chomhairle, the central council of the GAA, last year, more than double the 2006 amount.

A united Ireland can and will be achieved through peaceful, democratic and political means, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said today.

Sinn Féin’s national executive met today for crucial talks on whether to hold a party conference at the end of the month, where a historic debate on support for policing will take place.

The Northern peace process has been plunged into crisis because the Rev Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party reneged on an agreement with Sinn Féin, Gerry Adams said today.

THE Government is expected to give a low-key response today welcoming the qualified backing of all Northern parties for last month’s St Andrew’s Agreement.

Sinn Féin’s response to the St Andrews Agreement is actually a step backwards, the Rev Ian Paisley claimed today.

THE North was on the brink of a power-sharing breakthrough last night as Sinn Féin gave its conditional backing to the St Andrews Agreement.

Sinn Féin was mandated by its members today to fully support the St Andrews Agreement to achieve power sharing in the North by next March.

The Sinn Féin leadership meet tomorrow to discuss the party response to the St Andrews Agreement.

Sinn Féin tonight began a wide consultation process with party members and supporters before deciding if it will support policing in the North.

Sinn Féin MEP and General Election candidate Mary Lou McDonald has given birth to a baby boy, it emerged today.

Former Fianna Fáil TD Beverly Flynn could eventually face a legal bill of €2.5m following an unsuccessful libel action against RTÉ in 2001.

BEVERLY FLYNN, the Mayo TD expelled from Fianna Fáil last year, yesterday decried the party’s decision to dissolve a local cumann in Castlebar as “very shabby treatment.”

SINN FÉIN last night attacked the Irish Government for its support of the Independent Monitoring Commission, accusing it of failing in its "stewardship of the peace process".

Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble was today preparing to ask his party to endorse his leadership for another year.