New GAA director general Tom Ryan has taken issue with commentary about him as “inside appointment” who will be guided by commercial principles.

The cancelled Garth Brooks concerts, the 2010 Leinster SFC final, the failed 2023 Rugby World Cup bid and the protracted process to redevelop Casement Park have been cited by GAA director general Páraic Duffy as the major disappointments of his 10-year tenure.

Former GAA president Nickey Brennan has hailed outgoing director general Páraic Duffy as “by some distance” the best sports administrator in Ireland and beyond over the last decade.

O’Sullivan is convinced that the recommendations won't marginalise hurling.

This month marks year nine of Páraic Duffy’s term as GAA director general.

GAA bosses have quashed the controversial proposal to throw a British army team from the London Junior Football Championship.

Shortly after Cian O’Neill’s appointment as Kildare football manager, he discussed his panel and the number of players sidelined over the winter with ‘legacy’ injuries.

The chairman of the national referees development body insists the policing of verbal intimidation is not being ignored by match officials.

GAA president-elect Aogán Ó Fearghail has signalled his intention to target male-orientated, single-code clubs to encourage them to cater for more Gaelic games.

Newly-appointed Ard Stiúrthóír of the Camogie Association, Joan O’Flynn, is relishing the opportunity to once more play a leading role in advancing the profile of the game.

Joan O'Flynn has been appointed as the new Ard Stiúrthóír (Director General) of the Camogie Association.

GAA director general Páraic Duffy admits the association face a major challenge to prepare for the introduction of the black card in 2014 — but remains convinced it will be for the betterment of Gaelic football.

For GAA president Liam O’Neill and for the Ard Stiúrthóir, Páraic Duffy, the new hugely restrictive sideline regulations might be a done deal, an issue they now fervently wish would just go away.

‘Nothing beats being there’.

The GAA’s Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) were yesterday forced to make a dramatic fixture U-turn following an intervention by Leinster interpro boss Seán Boylan.

SO thorough and so well thought out is, Árd Stiúrthóir, Páraic Duffy’s discussion paper on GAA amateur status and payment to managers, finally released this week, that it seems all that is left for today’s gathering in Croke Park to do is firstly to decide upon which of the three proposed intervention options is least likely to leave the Association open to charges of double standards and secondly to assign figures to any putative payments to inter-county managers.

The 2011 TG4 Ladies Football Championships were launched today at Croke Park with 34 counties competing across the three grades.

THE issue of whether the Central Council is less ‘democratic’ than clubs in terms of putting forward motions on playing rules to Congress every five years was discussed at Saturday’s Cork convention in Páirc Uí Chaoimh, leading to delegates voting 107/77 against a proposal to deny the Council and any of its sub-committees that recently-won right.

RTÉ conveniently believe that Gaelic games in this country are played over a four-month season, according to Dublin GAA secretary John Costello.

RTÉ conveniently believe that Gaelic games in this country are played over a four-month season, according to Dublin GAA secretary John Costello.

CALLS for the GAA to abandon the new handpass rule were met with a firm and unequivocal response by the association’s Director General yesterday.

FORMER Munster Council chairman Noel Walsh, one of the driving forces behind the campaign to open Croke Park up to other sports, is confident the GAA will consider future requests for the use of their ground after the completion of the Aviva Stadium redevelopment.

WHEN news reached us here in Australia of another standoff between the Cork hurling panel and the Cork County Board, our immediate reaction was: “what the hell is gone wrong now?”

A SENIOR Cork camogie official last night admitted to being “astonished and disgusted” at the nominations for the sport’s manager of the year award.

Hot on the heels of the criticism by GPA chief executive Dessie Farrell of anti-grants body 'Of One Belief' come the comments of GAA PRO Danny Lynch, who has also hit out at the "grassroots" group.

The revised document on Government Grants to GAA players does not contravene the GAA's Amateur status according to new Árd Stiurthoir Pauric Duffy.

Relations in the ongoing dispute between the Cork GAA players and the Cork County Board have worsened after the Senior hurlers and footballers tonight rejected the latest document put forward, in a bid to find a resolution to the deadlock.

New GAA Director General Paraic Duffy and Labour Relations Commission Chief Kieran Mulvey will travel to Cork today in a bid to resolve the ongoing dispute between the Cork senior hurlers and footballers and the Cork County Board.

GAA president Nickey Brennan has led the tributes to Liam Mulvihill, who held a final press conference today as he retires as the Association's director general, a post he has held since June 1, 1979.

Glowing tributes were paid today to GAA Player Welfare Officer Paraic Duffy who was confirmed as the Association's new Director General, taking up office on February 1 next.