Dinny Cahill has been appointed as Antrim's senior hurling manager for the second time this decade, succeeding the joint management team of Terence 'Sambo' McNaughton and Dominic McKinley.

It has been confirmed that today's All-Ireland SHC relegation play-offs involving Antrim, Offaly, Clare and Wexford will go ahead as planned, after a decision was made by the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) early today.

Delegates at today's GAA Special Congress at Croke Park have overwhelmingly passed a motion to change the format of the 2008 All-Ireland hurling championship by the required two-thirds majority.

A SENIOR GAA official in the North was adamant yesterday that a controversial Maze Prison hunger strike commemoration in Casement Park in Belfast was not political.