The celebration of a Cork sporting hero’s life is now a PR disaster for the GAA, writes Joe Leogue.

The Government is to seek an explanation from the Cork County Board, amid concerns that the decision not to allow the Liam Miller tribute match take place at Pairc Ui Chaoimh may have broken the conditions of a grant paid towards the stadium’s redevelopment.

The US GAA board want counties to notify them when fundraising initiatives are being undertaken in America.

The Munster Council announced last night they are giving Cork GAA €3.75m toward the €70m reconstruction of Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Páirc Uí Chaoimh should be chosen to host All-Ireland quarter or semi-finals when it reopens in 2017 following a €70 million upgrade, according to the Cork County Board chairman.

The redevelopment of Pairc Ui Chaoimh is greatly anticipated in Kerry and is hugely deserved and needed by the GAA in Cork.

Debutant goalkeeper David Hanrahan is one of eight changes on the Cork football side for Sunday’s Allianz Football League Division 1 clash with Tyrone at Páirc Uí Rinn next weekend.

Planning permission has been granted for the Casement Park redevelopment project which will see a 5,500 increase in capacity at the Belfast venue to bring it to a 38,000 all-seater stadium, which will be the flagship venue for Ulster GAA fixtures.

All-Ireland finalists Cork and Munster champions Limerick will be parachuted back into the top tier of the Allianz Hurling League under new proposals to be put to GAA Central Council shortly.

Ulster Council chiefs have insisted the redevelopment of Casement Park will be within budget and will enhance the local community.

Discussion of motions for this weekend’s GAA’s Annual Congress was the main focus of last night’s Cork County Board meeting at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Ireland International Rules manager Anthony Tohill has questioned the impartiality of one of the match officials in the second Test of this year's Series against Australia.

GAA fans in the North face huge fines if they drink on buses to matches or celebrate with their team on the pitch in from now on.

I AM looking at a photograph in the programme for the Tipperary-Kilkenny All-Ireland final of 1967 (priced, incidentally at an old shilling).

AN effort is being made for mouthguards to be compulsory for all GAA players. The move is being proposed by the Burrishole club and will come before the Mayo county convention next week.

Former Cork dual star Denis Walsh has been chosen as the Rebels' new hurling manager, it was announced tonight.

The IRFU and the ERC have welcomed the decision by the GAA's Central Council to make Croke Park provisionally available as a semi-final venue for this season’s Heineken Cup.

Efforts by the GAA to find a solution to the crisis in Cork hurling have been unsuccessful, it was announced tonight.

The GAA and the Department of Foreign Affairs today launched their joint community outreach initiative on Emigrant Heritage and Sport at Croke Park.

An open meeting is being held in Antrim tonight for GAA players, coaches and supporters who are opposed to the €3.5m grant scheme for elite inter-county stars.

The GAA wants to reach out to unionists, an official said today.

The GAA today agreed to allow soccer and rugby matches to be played at Croke Park in 2008, but rejected the possibility of hosting non-Gaelic games beyond that point.

WHEN the GAA’s Management Committee and Central Council meet today they should take stock of the decisions they are being asked to make as regards the use of Croke Park in 2008 for games other than those promoted by the GAA.

SINN FÉIN chief negotiator Martin McGuinness has described as “childish” the GAA’s decision not to offer the party tickets for this year’s All-Ireland finals.

OUTGOING GAA President Sean Kelly last night made a robust defence of the December 10 Central Council decision to agree to the playing of (six) rugby and soccer internationals in Croke Park in 2007.

PLEASE permit me to reply to some of the outlandish claims made by Diarmuid O’Flynn in his ‘Talking GAA’ column (Irish Examiner, April 4).

THE GAA’S best footballers may have left Australia empty handed after the last International Rules Series but the Association’s president and top officials certainly achieved more than a little revenge yesterday.

Australian football officials agreed a new code of conduct for the International Rules series today to eliminate the violent tackles that had put its future at risk.

A SUCCESSFUL IRFU planning process is crucial to the historic opening up of Croke Park for a rugby international in early 2007.

IT’S hard to know which conclave was more important - the one in Rome which only had to decide a new Pope, or the one in Dublin to decide whether or not to open the most sacred temple in Ireland to the unconverted.

THE Taoiseach last night told GAA president Seán McCague to reapply for the €40 million grant he had promised to the organisation and that he wanted Croke Park opened up for soccer.

ACCORDING to a letter in your issue of September 18, the GAA Central Council had unfettered authority in regard to the use of the GAA grounds for other field games from 1971 to 1985.

SO the Abbotstown project has been put to bed. In the heel of the hunt, it was a victory for financial sanity.

GOVERNMENT grants worth €60million promised to the GAA have been placed in doubt by the decision not to build the National Stadium with taxpayers money.

The GAA’s Strategic Review Committee will shortly unveil a package of reforms, one of which will see the end of Central Council Delegates in the Association.