Cork captain Seamus Harnedy will come face to face with the referee who has sent him off twice in the last 15 months in Sunday week’s Munster SHC Round 1 game against Tipperary.

The Mullinalaghta man can still take his case to the Central Appeals Committee.

Cork captain Seamus Harnedy and Kilkenny’s Conor Delaney are free to play their counties’ respective provincial championship round one games following a decision by the GAA’s Central Appeals Committee (CAC) in Croke Park last night.

Seamus Harnedy hopes the GAA’s Central Appeals Committee (CAC) in Croke Park this evening clear him to play against Tipperary on May 12.

Clare co-manager Gerry O’Connor doubts that Tony Kelly’s red card last Saturday week would be shown in the Championship.

Clare will be heading to Croke Park later this week to query Colm Lyons' decision to send off Tony Kelly in last Saturday's Division 1A opener against Tipperary in Thurles.

New Munster hurling format carries fears with cheers

THE GAA has two red flag issues to deal with. One is, literally, that: the display by Cork hurling fans of Confederate flags at the All-Ireland hurling semi-final between Cork and Waterford at Croke Park on Sunday.

In 2011, for the second year in a row, former inter-county referee and Irish Examiner columnist John Bannon put forward a motion to GAA Congress via his club Legan Sarsfields to take referees out of the process of issuing proposed retrospective suspensions, writes John Fogarty.

Waterford defender Tadhg de Búrca will play no part in Sunday’s All-Ireland senior hurling semi-final against Cork, after his last-ditch appeal to the independent Disputes Resolution Authority failed, writes Jackie Cahill.

GAA pundit Joe Brolly appears to have come to the rescue of Antrim’s Matthew Fitzpatrick after the footballer was hit with a proposed 48-week suspension.

Tipperary have confirmed that they will appeal against Jason Forde’s one-match suspension, which currently rules the Silvermines player out of the Munster SHC quarter-final against Cork on Sunday week.

Tipperary legend Michael ‘Babs’ Keating has called on the GAA to take referee Diarmuid Kirwan to task for his role in last month’s Nowlan Park suspension saga.

It was the end of the world as we knew it. That’s what we were told, anyway. That the reprieve offered to Diarmuid Connolly by two of the three men sitting on the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) panel had taken a match to the GAA’s disciplinary system.

Donegal are set to escape punishment as a result of using one player too many in the closing stages of Saturday’s drawn Ulster semi-final.

Last year, the GAA’s disciplinary system was again the source of controversy. 

Kerry and Donegal have had their proposed €7,500 fines reduced to €5,000 following a Central Hearings Committee (CHC) meeting in Croke Park on Wednesday night.

Victorious Ballyboden St Endas manager Andy McEntee hit out at the GAA after midfielder Declan O’Mahoney failed in having his one-match suspension rescinded ahead of the All-Ireland final.

Armagh and QUB footballer Ciaran O’Hanlon will go before the Central Appeals Committee tonight in an attempt to have a 12-week suspension handed down by the GAA’s higher education committee overturned.

Philly McMahon will miss January’s Division 1 opener against Kerry after choosing not to pursue his challenge of a one-match ban arising from an incident in last month’s All-Ireland final.

A member of the GAA’s Disputes Resolution Authority panel that cleared Dublin star Diarmuid Connolly to play in the All-Ireland semi-final replay has broken ranks and issued his own rebuttal of the decision.

Aidan O’Shea maintains he was head-butted by Philly McMahon in last month’s drawn All-Ireland semi-final.

Diarmuid Connolly benefited from an almost identical assessment in New England Patriots quarter-back’s Tom Brady’s suspension appeal case last week to successfully quash the ublin star’s one-match ban on Saturday.

Diarmuid Connolly is set to be named in the Dublin team to face Mayo tomorrow in the hope he will be allowed to play.

Dublin Board chairman Sean Shanley confirmed there will be no further appeals following the reduction to €6,500 of their fine for July’s infamous challenge match brawl with Armagh.

The Central Hearings Committee (CHC) face a busy schedule in Croke Park this and tomorrow evening as they address challenges to the proposed bans for Tiernan McCann and two players arising from last month’s Dublin-Armagh challenge game.

Members of the Clare hurling panel are asked to inform Davy Fitzgerald when they are going on a night out, the 2013 All-Ireland winning-manager has revealed.

Limerick may yet decide to bring Seanie Tobin’s disciplinary case to the Central Appeals Committee (CAC) after the Central Hearings Committee upheld the proposed one-match ban on Thursday evening.

Tipperary’s Allianz hurling league title hopes have received a major boost with confirmation that Seamus Callanan is free from suspension.

The Tipperary county board may yet turn to the CAC in their bid to have Seamus Callanan’s red card against Offaly overturned.

On Sunday, Barry Kelly takes charge of a Kilkenny game for the first time since Brian Cody’s "criminal" comments about him.

Tomorrow's Fitzgibbon Cup quarter-finals are unlikely to go ahead, after Mary Immaculate College have confirmed this evening that an appeal has been submitted to the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) over the reinstatement of IT Carlow in the competition.

UCD football manager John Divilly believes the credibility of the Fitzgibbon and Sigerson Cup competitions has been seriously damaged by the eligibility controversies involving players from IT Carlow, IT Sligo and QUB.

Both of today's Fitzgibbon Cup Hurling quarter-finals are postponed after IT Carlow were reinstated in the competition last night, following a meeting of the GAA’s Central Appeals Committee (CAC).

Uncertainty hung over the Fitzgibbon Cup last night as IT Carlow’s appeal dragged into the early hours.

IT Sligo and QUB officials have slammed the GAA’s Higher Education committee for claiming both third-level institutions fielded ineligible players in the Sigerson Cup.

Queens University Belfast have confirmed they will contest their expulsion from the Sigerson Cup.