TOP GAA official Liam O’Neill believes that the economic downturn facing counties and clubs will provide an opportunity to stop playing ‘ridiculous expenses to team managers’.

ONE of the more interesting motions debated at the week-end GAA Congress came at the very end of the Saturday session and, through an oversight, wasn’t even included in the agenda. Dealing with the topical issue with the age eligibility of young players for the various championship grades, it came from Tipperary. And, according to board chairman John Costigan it was “about the survival” of 25 clubs in the county.

TOP referee John Bannon from Longford believes the upcoming review of playing rules will have a significant influence on the control of games in the future.

SEÁN KELLY has fully backed the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) and insisted yesterday it was the mechanisms of the entire appeal structure, rather than the DRA itself, that required review.