The chief executive of Newry and Mourne Cooperative and Enterprise Agency (NMEA), Dr Conor Patterson has warned that crops will be not be harvested and patients will go without care because of the shortage of workers under proposed new immigration rules in the UK.

Club Players Association (CPA) executive member Liam Griffin claims the body was “never welcomed” by the GAA.

Club Players Association (CPA) chairman Micheál Briody fears Saturday’s decision to back a Tier 2 inter-county football competition will scupper the chances of the GAA’s fixtures review committee’s own T2 proposal being back in February.

Club Players’ Association (CPA) chairman, Micheál Briody — one of the chief stakeholders in the recently-established Fixtures Review Committee (FRC) — has insisted there will be no sacred cows left untouched in their quest to find solutions for the vast majority of footballers and hurlers who have their fixtures postponed indefinitely by the inter-county season.

The plight of club players was front and centre once more this week when Cork delegates debated radical new championship structures.

The April fools were the GAA clubs which believed ‘club month’ would be a ring-fenced opportunity to inject momentum back into the grassroots. Our new columnist Paddy Kelly believes the first step towards correcting the Association’s biggest headache is to hand April back to the inter-county scene. Now read on...

The GAA are expected to ensure there is no promotion of either side ahead of the Eighth Amendment referendum at any of next month’s Championship games.

“If everyone’s individual vote was out there in the public domain, it would be an invitation for all sorts of people to attack them like the keyboard warriors and the Twitterati.”

Europe GAA chairman Tony Bass stands by his Congress comments about the Club Players Association (CPA), insisting the GAA is best placed to address clubs’ concerns.

A decision on whether David Clifford plays U20 or senior for Kerry next summer won’t be made until next spring, Jack O’Connor has suggested.

The Club Players Association (CPA) has called on GAA members to back a motion to ensure voting transparency at the GAA annual congress.

The Club Players’ Association (CPA) has called on Director General Páraic Duffy and Croke Park bosses to ensure the 2018 Master Fixtures plan is implemented “in full” at county level.

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 Club Players Association (CPA) says the legitimacy of the “Super 8” addition to the All-Ireland senior football championship won’t hold up if the Gaelic Players Association (GPA) also oppose it.