A new oversight unit favoured by GAA top-brass will penalise county boards should they fail to schedule games on weekends where county players are permitted to line out for their club.

Following a meeting with Mayo officials in Croke Park last Friday, the GAA leadership are now keen to speak to the Mayo International Supporters Foundation chairman Tim O’Leary about resolving the impasse.

No senior, U20, or minor inter-county panel should be permitted to return to collective training before December 1, according to Connacht secretary John Prenty, who has called on Croke Park to hand over governance of training ban rules to provincial councils.

Galway officials are to ask Croke Park to conduct a more expansive audit into the county’s finances.

Galway GAA chairman Pat Kearney has said they will meet main sponsors Supermac’s in the coming days to deal with any queries about how their money has been spent but he said they have nothing to hide.

Some years some titles should be valued that bit more than usual, having been that bit harder earned.

Connacht Council secretary John Prenty believes the pitch invasion before the end of Sunday’s provincial final may have been prevented if a countdown clock was utilised.

Stadium clocks should stop after 35 minutes, according to Connacht Council secretary John Prenty, who believes the premature pitch invasion near the end of Sunday’s Connacht SFC final may have been prevented if supporters were not aware of how much injury-time was remaining.

Have you refereed outside the country before?

The end of New York City’s number 1 subway line runs adjacent to Gaelic Park’s clubhouse goals in the Bronx. The MTA’s train yard tracks split and wrap themselves around the storied venue, offering patrons a uniquely bland metallic facade once they pass through the green gates.

Control over county ground development projects should be taken away from county board officers and handed over to Croke Park, according to Connacht Council CEO John Prenty.

The game was played without the controversial hand-pass rule which had just hours earlier been ditched by Central Council, and Sunday’s FBD Connacht League final between Galway and Roscommon at Tuam will also be played without the ill-fated regulation.

Mayo’s stand-in captain Jason Doherty revealed he took more than a dozen penalties on Saturday ahead of Sunday’s FBD League encounter which ended up being decided by an historic shootout.

The Mayo ladies football saga took another twist last night.

Jim McGuinness will not be the next Mayo football manager, with the 2012 All-Ireland winning Donegal boss ruling himself out of the running to succeed Stephen Rochford.

The Galway senior ladies football management have hit out at the appointment of Gerry Carmody to referee their Connacht final meeting with Mayo on Sunday.

Seven years since they last played host to a Connacht final involving themselves, 27 since they last successfully defended a provincial crown, which also came in front of a Dr Hyde Park crowd, history beckons for Roscommon tomorrow.

Leitrim 0-10 Roscommon 0-24

Sligo withdrew from last night’s Connacht JFC semi-final against Galway because of a bereavement.

The April fools were the GAA clubs which believed ‘club month’ would be a ring-fenced opportunity to inject momentum back into the grassroots. Our new columnist Paddy Kelly believes the first step towards correcting the Association’s biggest headache is to hand April back to the inter-county scene. Now read on...

The GAA’s new national club committee is not a knee-jerk reaction to the Club Players Association, according to its chairman Mick Rock.

Clare club Wolfe Tones na Sionna believe their recommendation to outlaw the practice of clubs hiring outside managers can be “sea-changing” for the GAA.

John Divilly pick out the key takeaways from the weekend’s football action.

Connacht counties have finally heeded the provincial secretary’s many warnings, with spending by counties on their flagship teams falling by 9% last year on the record high of €4.93m in 2016.

A breakthrough is expected this week in the impasse which has held up the Galway SHC championship in a row over the eligibility of a player

Wexford have been dealt a blow ahead of Saturday’s Leinster semi-final against Kilkenny with the news that Liam Óg McGovern is suspected to have torn a cruciate ligament.

Connacht Council secretary John Prenty has accused counties of “living beyond their means”, saying steps must be taken to rein in spending on inter-county teams.

Connacht Council secretary John Prenty has called for third-level teams to be pulled from the province’s FBD league.

Annual expenditure on Mayo’s various inter-county teams will never again drop below €1m, treasurer Kevin O’Toole has warned.

Connacht Council secretary John Prenty has warned that further player uprisings, similar to the revolts which rocked the province in 2015, will lead to the creation of a “monster” within the GAA.

Billy Joe Padden says it is fanciful to believe a single county will be reprimanded for breaking the winter training ban.

Several thousand supporters are to lose out as a result of the Connacht Council’s decision to stage next month’s provincial football decider at Dr Hyde Park.

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The head of the GAA in Connacht believes that the football championship should be based on eight teams battling for each provincial title — but he feels none of the other provinces will back his proposal.

Roscommon 3-14 Galway 3-11: The new president of the Connacht Council, Mick Rock, hit the nail on the head when he said that if there was any truth in recent reports about Gaelic football being dead, it was appropriate the resurrection should take place over the Easter weekend.

Galway GAA is mourning the death of one of their longest serving officials with the passing of Central Council delegate Pat Egan.

Mayo Convention: Mike Connelly was elected chairman of Mayo GAA Board at yesterday’s Convention.