Last Tuesday we had the Budget. Next Saturday it's the Special GAA Congress. Michael Moynihan wondered if the former might influence thoughts at the latter.

Negotiations to play a ground-breaking Guinness PRO14 rugby clash between Munster and Leinster at Páirc Ui Chaoimh this Christmas are at an advanced though delicate stage,

The GAA have announced four of the seven Allianz League games rescheduled for today have been postponed due to unplayable pitches, not because of the strike that was threatened by the Gaelic Players Association last night.

GAA Congress this afternoon rejected the Club Players Association (CPA) motion for voter transparency at the annual event.

Club Players’ Association executive member Derek Kavanagh is disappointed that Cork has opted to vote against GAA Congress motion on the recording of votes, but he is hopeful that other counties will show their support.

Here are all the latest headlines this lunchtime.

Oisín McConville believes the GAA’s next step in tackling gambling addiction should be an outright ban on Gaelic players betting on football and hurling.

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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.

A proposal aimed at preventing inter-county managers forcing potential dual players to choose between hurling and football failed to get off the ground at the Tipperary GAA annual convention.

Armagh manager Kieran McGeeney and Roscommon selector Liam McHale have backed the introduction of the ‘mark’ to Gaelic football, but McGeeney believes the GAA could do even more to encourage high fielding.

Congress may be the GAA’s ultimate expression of democracy but self-awareness has never been its strongest suit.

The GAA and GPA are on a major collision course after the players’ organisation last night threatened the non- compliance of eight county teams if the ‘B’ championship proposal is approved by Congress later this month.

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A motion relating to concussion has been referred to the GAA’s Scientific and Welfare concussion, after a strong debate at GAA Congress in Cavan this morning.

Waterford delegates are set to support the one-on-one penalty motion put forward by the Hurling 2020 committee at GAA Congress in Cavan later this month.

A Tipperary club official has revealed his motion aimed at reducing the number of steps a player can take with ball in hand from four to three has met with opposition from Hurling’s 2020 review committee.

Hurlers receiving a second yellow card, could be allowed a replacement, similar to the black card rule in football, after a wide ranging report by the GAA's Hurling 20/20 Committee was revealed at

GAA Congress delegates have decided that match bans will now apply at all levels, in place of the previous time-based structure.

GAA referees could soon have the power to send players off for racism offences.

THERE are so many reasons to like the idea of hosting the 2023 Rugby World Cup that it’s hard to know where to start.

TAOISEACH Éamon de Valera told a dinner of the Past Pupils Union of his old school, Blackrock College, at Shannon in Apr 1957: “I have not been at a rugby match since 1913 because I do not want it being raised as a political matter and having rows kicked up about it.”

A number of the Football Review Committee proposals have been given the 'green light' by GAA Congress delegates including the introduction of a 'public clock' and a new definition for the tackle.

The Government has welcomed the decision by the GAA to allow Croke Park and other stadiums to be made available if Ireland hosts the Rugby World Cup.

GAA Congress delegates have given their overwhelming backing to a new structure for the Hurling Championship from 2014.

GAA Congress doesn’t exactly get pulses racing, but this weekend’s gathering in Derry is arguably the most important since 2005 when delegates voted to give Central Council the power to make Croke Park available for international rugby and soccer games.

The GAA is proposing the introduction of a 'black card' to gaelic football.

GAA Director General Páraic Duffy Duffy has hit back at comments made by Kildare manager Kieran McGeeney saying that the Lilywhites were better off being 'sneaky or dishonest' in relation to the transfer of Seanie Johnston.

The long-running saga in relation to the transfer of former Cavan senior footballer Sean Johnston from Cavan Gaels to the St Kevin's club in Kildare is expected to come to an end today.

A potential crisis for the London senior footballers has been averted by the rescheduling of the start of the London Senior Football Championship.

London’s preparations for their Connacht SFC clash with Leitrim on June 3 are back on track after clubs acted last night to resolve a dilemma which threatened to dash the county team’s hopes of another championship campaign.

An emergency county board meeting called for this evening looks set to determine the fate of the London footballers, with the panel on course to be decimated by the ‘Seanie Johnston rule’.

The London footballers have been left reeling by the news that a new GAA law could rob them of 12 players for their Connacht SFC clash with Leitrim.

New GAA President Liam O'Neill has backed the views of Tyrone boss Mickey Harte that Gaelic football does not deserve the bad press it gets.

The Irish Dental Association (IDA) has welcomed the decision by the GAA to make it compulsory for players to wear mouth guards in football games and training.

Security was tight at GAA Congress yesterday evening as a number of Croke Park residents protested outside the Heritage Hotel, Killenard venue.

A number of proposals aimed at speeding up Gaelic football and hurling are being considered by the GAA's Playing Rules Committee.