In large font on the front page of both ESRI reports commissioned for the GAA and GPA exists the phrase “evidence for policy”.

“Well I chaired [the committee] and I don’t accept that narrative whatsoever,” said Sullivan, in response to CPA criticism of the taskforce.

A new oversight unit favoured by GAA top-brass will penalise county boards should they fail to schedule games on weekends where county players are permitted to line out for their club.

A Special Congress in April or May of next year will determine if the provincial boundaries are redrawn so to provide four eight-team provincial football championships.

As anecdotal evidence of inter-county teams returning to collective training for 2020 before the traditional permitted start dates grows, the GAA is taking a more relaxed attitude to training bans.

John Fogarty The chances of the International Rules series taking place this year are diminishing as the GAA and AFL have yet to come to an agreement.

Newbridge or nowhere, Croke Park or nowhere: Kildare appear to be on their way out of the All-Ireland SFC because of a row with the GAA concerning the choice of venue for their All-Ireland SFC Round 3 qualifier against Mayo next Saturday.

Eight years have whizzed by since the Limerick footballers pushed Kerry all the way in a Munster senior football final.

Those wishing to put forward their names to succeed Páraic Duffy as the next GAA director general have until Wednesday to apply. 

The GAA will cut the number of inter-county matches in April, August, and September by 79 in 2018 to make more space for club fixtures.

The Club Players Association (CPA) has claimed the GAA’s hierarchy have shown “no appetite” to make meaningful changes to the master fixtures calendar for the benefit of club footballers and hurlers.

The All-Ireland senior club finals will have later throw-in times on St Patrick’s Day in Croke Park this year.

Dublin football star Bernard Brogan has hit out at the GAA’s new anti-doping procedures and labelled the introduction of blood testing as “a bit aggressive” and “too intrusive”.

Confess it: when Dónal Óg Cusack criticised the decision to award Limerick a goal against Westmeath this summer you couldn’t have agreed more. Neither could we.

Mayo chairman Mike Connelly admits he’s still at a loss as to why the majority of the senior football panel expressed no confidence in Pat Holmes and Noel Connelly forcing their departure as co-managers.

At the behest of a reader and a Kilkenny friend of ours, we took another look at Barry Kelly’s decision to overturn a Tipperary 65 last Sunday week. 

GAA chiefs are counting down to one of the most lucrative weekends of the season with 10 major games down for decision and close to 200,000 expected through the turnstiles.

The referee at the heart of the disputed goal in Limerick’s All-Ireland SHC qualifier win over Westmeath in Mullingar last Sunday said he never doubted he and his umpire had made the right call in awarding the score.

A GAA player from Monaghan has been provisionally banned from Gaelic games for two years after testing positive for a banned substance.

Permanent clocks with hooters are being installed in every principal county GAA venue — despite a Central Council motion calling for them to be scrapped before they are put into use in the time-keeping of championship games this year. 

Today in Croke Park, Central Council will be presented with proposals from a sub-committee charged with devising a plan to introduce a calendar GAA season from 2016, writes John Fogarty.

Some might call it cruel but at least Paddy O’Rourke can laugh about it now.

Proposals to help finish the club season in the calendar year won’t be revealed until January’s Central Council meeting.

The GAA is expected to at least ask Brian Cody to explain his scathing remarks about Barry Kelly as the referee’s Westmeath County Board intend taking the matter further.

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Referees are above and beyond any pre-match attempts by managers or selectors to influence them, according to Feargal McGill, the GAA’s director of games administration and player welfare.

Wexford chairman Diarmuid Devereux claims the decision to stick with Thurles for Sunday’s All-Ireland hurling quarter-finals is further proof the county ‘will never get any help from Croke Park’.

Australia look certain to attract their best players for November’s International Rules series following a number of favourable rules tweaks.

The chairman of the GAA’s medical, scientific and welfare committee has launched a stout defence of the rule which saw Clare hurler Podge Collins red carded during Saturday’s All-Ireland qualifier clash against Wexford at Cusack Park.

The GAA are facing another embarrassment with confirmation that an anomaly still exists in their new rule interpretation on penalties and 20-metre frees.

The GAA insist sideline regulations have not been relaxed — despite a noticeable increase in the number of management and backroom officials at pitchside in the past couple of months.

RTÉ pundits met GAA officials on Saturday to get a rundown on new football rules as well as interpreting rules in both codes ahead of this year’s championship coverage.