75.5% of delegates backed the Central Council motion

Some weekend for the hurling, the weekend before last.

Given health, a regular span of life, hurlers spend a long time not being a hurler.

I met Nickey Brennan in the lift on the way out of Croke Park yesterday. “If ever a system needed to be redressed,” I said to him, “the set-up with the Galway club champions has to change.”

You know about the GAA’s fixture crisis, the funding pressures, the month of club fixtures...

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.

This Rugby World Cup bid, you know it’s going to happen, right? 

Former GAA president Peter Quinn says a disconnect between administration and grassroots certainly exists within the organisation if club players believe one does.

Two villages, both alike in dignity? Cork and Kilkenny both need a win in their Allianz Hurling League meeting tomorrow. Badly.

You couldn’t call it a rivalry.

Galway hurling PRO Jarlath Cloonan has raised the possibility of the county negotiating a return to the Munster senior hurling championship if the Leinster Council continue to refuse them home games and entry to their underage competitions.

Like much of the country, this column was marooned in rush hour traffic yesterday morning when news dropped the interminable counting of ballots in the Longford- Westmeath constituency had come to an end and, with it, the 2016 general election, writes Brendan O’Brien.

Congress may be the GAA’s ultimate expression of democracy but self-awareness has never been its strongest suit.

You need a thick skin in this game. Analysing football, and playing it.

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

Twenty years ago, Loughnane’s Clare emerged from nowhere to set the summer alight. Are we there again, waiting for a bolter to win the All Ireland, a team to come from the clouds and cut a swathe through a mediocre field?

Fr Tommy Maher, who died on Tuesday evening, has been described as a "legendary figure in Kilkenny and in hurling generally" by Kilkenny County Board chairman Ned Quinn.

As the man who appointed Brian Cody, Kilkenny fans can be very grateful to former chairman John Healy

Kilkenny’s treble success in the Allianz Hurling League Division 1 final at Semple Stadium on Sunday was all the more noteworthy for the reason that the county only won back-to-back titles for the first time in 1983.

I haven’t written about the Sky-GAA deal yet but brace yourself now, because I really feel I have to.

Don’t tell us that you didn’t see it coming. The Sky kites have been floating high for quite some time now, going back to Liam O’Neill’s first weekend in office in April 2012.

All in all, Liam O’Neill’s Congress address on Saturday weighed in at 6,649 words.

Aogán Ó Fearghail last night became the first Cavan man to be voted in as GAA president, highlighting fixtures, finance, facilities and families will be the focus when he takes office in 12 months’ time.

A tight vote is anticipated in Croke Park this evening in the battle to succeed Liam O’Neill as GAA president in 12 months’ time.

Former GAA president Nickey Brennan believes it is wrong to suggest Kilkenny are directing calls to make hurling a more physical game.

Former Limerick coach Donach O’Donnell believes Brian Cody and Eddie Keher’s proposal to abolish red and yellow cards in hurling is designed to pressure referees into giving fewer frees.

Perhaps Christy Cooney represents the living embodiment of the GAA ethos — going from the top seat in the national organisation back to coaching at his club with minimum of fuss his day next week, a man called David Stern will step down from one of the biggest jobs in US sports administration.

This morning, GAA director general Páraic Duffy delivers his sixth and possibly penultimate annual report.

Former GAA president Nickey Brennan believes Central Council were left in an unenviable position in choosing next year’s National Hurling League format.

It was Winston Churchill who once said “the best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter”.

The contest for the GAA Presidency will be a three-cornered affair between former provincial chairmen, Sean Walsh (Kerry), Aogán Ó Feargáil (Cavan) and Sheamus Howlin (Wexford).

This column returns today to what you may gather has become a hobby-horse of ours — the structure of the Allianz Hurling League. Well, we did we warn you last week.

Stringent new rules are needed to deal with increasing incidents of violence, verbal abuse and spitting, at GAA games.