Meath’s Mark Ward has called on the GAA to adopt a zero tolerance approach against spectators found to have assaulted players after incidents in club games in Limerick and Cavan this weekend.

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.

Antrim senior hurling manager Jerry Wallace has offered his resignation to the County Board in the midst of their 2012 Championship campaign.

RTÉ bosses have asked pundits on The Sunday Game if inter-county managers are asking them to play down the seriousness of incidents in games following comments by Antrim senior hurling manager Jerry Wallace earlier in the week.

Brian Carthy faces a new challenge on Sunday when he commentates for RTÉ Radio One’s Sunday Sport on the Cadburys GAA Football All-Ireland U21 Final between Dublin and Roscommon from O’Connor Park, Tullamore.

KILKENNY defender JJ Delaney has insisted the door will never be closed to James ‘Cha’ Fitzpatrick should the midfielder reverse last week’s decision to retire from inter-county hurling.

The Tyrone County Board have released a statement on behalf of Mickey Harte and his players, regarding their lack of co-operation with RTÉ Television and Radio this summer.

RTÉ were yesterday forced to admit they apologised to Tyrone manager Mickey Harte for an offensive radio segment broadcast in early June.

WATERFORD’S hurlers met in Dungarvan yesterday morning for a recovery session and an intense debriefing following their 21-point Munster final defeat to Tipperary.

MICKEY HARTE turned down a request to speak to RTÉ following Tyrone’s Ulster SFC semi-final defeat to Donegal in Clones on Sunday.

THE manager boycott against RTÉ is over after Brian Cody and Mickey Moran spoke to the national broadcasters at the weekend.

SO DID Mickey Harte and the gang of six or seven or eight cross the line this week? Until Hawk-Eye is finally installed and working right, I suppose we won’t know. We certainly don’t want to start a family feud by asking the umpires.

NONE of the inter-county managers boycotting RTÉ in protest at the treatment of journalist Brian Carthy consulted with their county boardsbefore making the decision to snub the national broadcaster.

LONGFORD manager Glenn Ryan has distanced himself from a letter sent to RTÉ by inter-county managers.

BRIAN CODY is the only one of six managers involved in RTÉ’s three live televised games this weekend set to refuse post-match interviews with the national broadcasters.

Christy Cooney says that the GAA will not be getting involved in the stand-off between a selection of inter-county managers and RTÉ.

The reason why Tyrone manager Mickey Harte, Kildare boss Kieran McGeeney and Laois' Justin McNulty all refused to give post-match interviews to RTÉ last Sunday has now emerged.

SOME of the country’s leading GAA inter-county managers are on a collision course with RTÉ because they believe the station’s GAA Correspondent and commentator Brian Carthy’s duties on Sundays have been downgraded.

MICHEÁL O MUIRCHEARTAIGH retirement marks the end of an era in more ways than one.

RTÉ YESTERDAY launched their most ambitious broadcast plans for the GAA Championships.

GAA President Nickey Brennan tried to stop any questions being asked about the GAA/GPA Government grants issue, at a press conference at Croke Park today.

RTE Radio One's "The Championship" programme will play host to the first round draw of this year's Tommy Murphy Cup this evening.

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THE concept of the GAA ever going professional is ‘a dead duck,’ according to president Sean Kelly, who warns that the consequences for the association would be dire.

FERMANAGH’S 22-year wait for a second Allstar award will come to an end this afternoon when the Vodafone football team are chosen by a panel of national media in Dublin.

LEADING inter-county managers have met with GAC chiefs in Croke Park to clarify regulations and thrash out solutions to a number of match day problems.

Tyrone full-forward and talisman attacker Peter Canavan sought immediate physio after suffering ankle ligament damage in the All-Ireland semi-final win over Kerry and may yet make the final.