Before our time, we’re reliably informed there were GAA journalists considered dedicated followers of fashion.

Longford man McGee guided the Faithful County to their famous 1982 All-Ireland final win, denying Kerry the five-in-a-row, as well as three consecutive Leinster titles and two All-Ireland Club SFC crowns with UCD.

Mr McGee, who was in his late seventies, passed away in the early hours of this morning.

Eighteen years ago, Tyrone proposed and succeeded in having a motion passed that there would be a 10-year moratorium on changes to the playing rules of Gaelic football.

The term ‘Tiger-proof’ entered golf’s lexicon after the aforementioned Eldrick Woods claimed the US Masters by 12 shots.

Thirteen years ago, provincial finals were exactly that — finals. The cream came to the top in each quadrant, writes John Fogarty

In the circumstances, I suppose, the descent into hyperbole can be excused.

“My memory is not the best,” laughs Pearse O’Neill. He’s just been asked to jog it back to the spring of 2010 when the mark last featured in inter-county Gaelic football.

Derry, March 23, 2013. Overcome with emotion, Football Review Committee chairman Eugene McGee sheds a tear upon the announcement that the black card, against the odds, has received 71% support and will come into rule.

The GAA’s standing playing rules committee meets in Croke Park this evening where the black card is certain to be discussed.

Eugene McGee has called for the appointment of full-time referees in Gaelic football to improve the standard of officiating in the game.

At the end of last month, GAA president Aogán Ó Fearghail was asked if he was worried about the standard of games in the football championship this summer.

Former International Rules manager Paul Earley says the introduction of the mark from a kickout can curb the number of hand-passes and resurrect the high-fielding midfielder.

September dawns and the GAA’s disciplinary system finds itself occupied in a month in which it is usually dormant.

GAA Director General Paraic Duffy has issued a passionate defence of the under fire football Championship, flatly rejecting Jim McGuinness’ claim that last weekend was a ‘watershed moment’ necessitating urgent overhaul.

The cry ‘consistency’ has become an unlikely clarion call in recent years.

So will the GPA find consensus among its members on this latest idea of theirs to restructure the All-Ireland senior football championship?

Former GAA president Seán Kelly says the Association must prioritise the state of the All-Ireland senior football championship and scrap their plans for a calendar year.

Here are some very important numbers: 144 — the number of points Dublin have won by in their 13 straight Leinster victories since 2011; 100 — the sum margin total of Carlow’s last six championship defeats and six — the number of seasons Waterford have gone without a win in the Munster senior football championship.

In football there always seems to be someone giving out about football, writes Kieran Shannon. 

All six Munster counties are against the introduction of a calendar GAA season from next year, the Irish Examiner can confirm.

Eugene McGee has claimed that the timing of matches brings Gaelic games into disrepute and slammed Central Council’s proposal to abandon the clock/hooter system at Congress tomorrow.

Permanent clocks with hooters are being installed in every principal county GAA venue — despite a Central Council motion calling for them to be scrapped before they are put into use in the time-keeping of championship games this year. 

Such a pity. Such a wasted opportunity. Twenty of the 65 motions to be debated at GAA Congress on Saturday week are changes to the playing rules as proposed by clubs. They won’t be afforded another such opportunity until 2020.

Jim Gavin has described as “baffling” Central Council’s decision to oppose the introduction of the clock/hooter, having endorsed it last year. 

GAA president Liam O’Neill has hit back at Joe Brolly’s claims that inter-county players are treated like "indentured slaves", writes John Fogarty.

"Women and children first". No, Liam O’Neill wasn’t on a Titanic lifeboat but as he bids adieu to the presidency his efforts for the often-overlooked denominations of the GAA may be the defining aspects of his three years, not just the reviews of football and hurling and the arrival of Sky Sports, says John Fogarty.

Today in Croke Park, Central Council will be presented with proposals from a sub-committee charged with devising a plan to introduce a calendar GAA season from 2016, writes John Fogarty.

At last Tuesday’s Hurling 2020 report launch, committee member Frank Lohan was asked if the double yellow card proposal was effectively saying hurling was twice as clean as Gaelic football.

An automatic substitution for a second yellow card is expected to be among the Hurling 2020 recommendations released later today.

Later today, Liam Sheedy’s Hurling 2020 committee will unveil their recommendations after several months of canvassing opinion and consultation.

It’s three years this month since GAA director general Páraic Duffy released his discussion paper on the association’s amateur status and payments to team managers, writes John Fogarty.

The chairman of the committee that proposed the introduction of Gaelic football’s black card believes, by and large, it has proven to be a success in its first year.

The one advance in GAA we’re looking forward to seeing most in 2015? The public clock/hooter in the All-Ireland football and hurling championships.

Is it time to extend the black card to the game of hurling?

Jim Gavin has called for the National Football League to be scrapped as part of his vision for a new inter-county calendar.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy has forecasted a return to large crowds for International Rules games in Ireland on foot of Saturday’s competitive test.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy has forecasted a return to large crowds for International Rules games in Ireland on foot of Saturday's competitive test.

Bringing both All-Ireland senior finals forward by week will help "revolutionise" the GAA calendar, claims GAA president Liam O’Neill.

Playing the All-Ireland senior and minor finals in August will be discussed at tomorrow’s Central Council meeting as a potential approach to condensing the club championships into the calendar year.

It’s almost that time of year again when clubs put forward motions to county conventions, but 2014 is slightly different.