With so much uncertainty and no financial returns from its affiliated clubs, Motorsport Ireland remains confident it will get through the current difficulties.

The GAA are set to review the schedule if not the structure of the Allianz Hurling League after they were impacted by the weather for a third consecutive season.

The corridors of power in the GAA have proven a tougher battleground than anything Liam Griffin experienced on the field of play when leading Wexford hurlers to All-Ireland glory in 1996.

“Well I chaired [the committee] and I don’t accept that narrative whatsoever,” said Sullivan, in response to CPA criticism of the taskforce.

Gaelic Players’ Association head Paul Flynn reckons the Club Players Association has performed a service of sorts by quitting the GAA’s task force on fixtures reform.

The Club Players Association (CPA) weren’t sparing with their language last week, but then, they would have had reason. The description of the fixtures taskforce as “a Trojan horse” was the exact phrase used by Europe chairman Tony Bass at Congress last year when he dismissed their transparency motion, which was then defeated heavily.

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.

Central Council will on Saturday be briefed on the three recommendations while also being issued with a list of motions that can be put on the Clár of Annual Congress in February should Ard Chomhairle see fit to do so.

Player representatives from the four senior clubs in provincial final action this weekend have expressed their discontent with the fixtures calendar.

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

Former Dublin footballer Ger Brennan is fearful scheduling changes to the Sigerson Cup and All-Ireland U20 football championship could lead to young players dropping out of college.

Wexford’s 1996 All-Ireland winning manager Liam Griffin believes there is merit in extending the sin bin to hurling.

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.

Here is a selection of people who have recently been appointed to interesting new roles.

Gardaí are preparing a file for the DPP after they arrested a man in Cork who was confronted by a vigilante group that claims to catch sexual predators.

Geraint Thomas shrugged off his third crash of the Tour de France as Caleb Ewan won stage 16 in soaring temperatures in Nimes.

Former Cork star Patrick Kelly believes the GAA should consider an earlier start date for the All-Ireland finals as the club scene is “on its knees” nationwide.

The GAA has invited its members to submit suggestions to the newly established Fixture Calendar Review Task Force.

Just one Munster man — Cork GAA CEO Kevin O’Donovan — is involved in the new fixtures task force (four from Leinster, three each from Connacht and Ulster) but at least there are several members hailing from dual counties.

Joint-captain Lee Chin has called on Wexford to give the ‘complete performance’ against Kilkenny this weekend after showing only glimpses of their true ability so far.

The membership of the task force was confirmed Sunday with chairman Eddie O’Sullivan joined by the likes of Cork CEO Kevin O'Donovan, Connacht secretary John Prenty and Dublin GAA CEO John Costello.

By the time you read this article, London’s 2019 senior football championship season may be over.

Club Players’ Association (CPA) chairman, Micheál Briody — one of the chief stakeholders in the recently-established Fixtures Review Committee (FRC) — has insisted there will be no sacred cows left untouched in their quest to find solutions for the vast majority of footballers and hurlers who have their fixtures postponed indefinitely by the inter-county season.

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.

Bastien Peyraud has been appointed as general manager of the Imperial Hotel, Cork, part of the Flynn Hotels group.

So, club month is over. Welcome to hurling month, just as June will be as well.

With the Club Players’ Association (CPA) threatening to “escalate” their stand-off against the GAA over club fixtures, GAA President John Horan says it is up to individual county boards to provide players with a programme that satisfies everyone.

The managers of two leading senior hurling teams in Cork have praised GAA chiefs for their efforts in improving the plight of club players.

The plight of club players was front and centre once more this week when Cork delegates debated radical new championship structures.

Twenty jobs will be created via a national accountancy apprenticeship programme in Cork in which applicants will earn while they learn.

A second April intended for club-only weekend games is almost upon us and the question remains why. Why the need for such a token gesture when it’s blatantly obvious that the county and club

They’d like to think they’re making changes — and for the better — but it would appear to be that the GAA’s modus operandi is just business as usual under the new leadership tandem of John Horan and Tom Ryan.

Not that long ago, but before TV3 let alone Sky Sports started covering the qualifiers and before the GAA was routinely accused of selling its soul, a team that had contested the previous year’s All-Ireland final was drawn away to a Leinster team with one of the worst and smallest stadiums in the country, just like Mayo were to Kildare last Monday morning.

Irish Examiner writers Anthony Daly and John Divilly review the Championship weekend with Colm O'Connor.