Noel Walsh and Gabriel Keating didn’t set out to become pioneers in the early 1970s, rather both men were simply unhappy with the set-up in front of them.

Former Munster Council chairman Noel Walsh has castigated Croke Park hierarchy over their “unjust” treatment of Longford GAA club Dromard.

The man behind last weekend’s failed attempt to open up GAA grounds to other sports says the campaign is only just beginning.

One of the first proponents of bringing All-Ireland finals forward has reservations about the practicality of completing the club season in the calendar year.

For much of the time, he served as a Clare delegate to the Munster Council before being elected chairman, Noel Walsh was a strong advocate of the inter-provincial competitions and in the vanguard of the movement to open up Croke Park to rugby and soccer.

The leader of the Green Party has said people living in a family home who cannot afford to pay their mortgage should not be evicted from that house.

Munster chairman Robert Frost has been criticised by his predecessor and fellow Clareman Noel Walsh for proposing the 2014 provincial draw be seeded.

A man whose family is facing eviction said he hopes their decision to go public will give thousands of other families in mortgage arrears the strength to take a stand.

Clare’s Robert Frost will succeed Sean Walsh as Munster Council chairman this evening.

Michael McDonagh of the St Joseph’s Miltown club was elected as the new Clare County Board chairman at last night’s annual convention in Ennis.

On the night of July 18, 1992, Martin Donnelly sat in his hotel room in the Clare Inn looking at 20 brand new Clare jerseys.

Clare senior football manager Micheal McDermott has spoken out against proposals to resume seeding the Munster SFC.

The Interprovincial Football and Hurling Championships, formerly known as the Railway Cups, are poised to return to the GAA calendar in 2012.

THE interprovincial competitions have been given another lifeline after Central Council last night voted to give it the go-ahead on a trial basis.

Fine Gael's John Paul Phelan tops the poll in Carlow Kilkenny with 10,929 votes but has not reached the quota of 12,291.

GAA president Christy Cooney has said he won’t stand in the way of counties who oppose the winter inter-county collective training ban coming together and standing behind a single motion.

GAA interprovincial championships sponsor Martin Donnelly has welcomed the Central Council’s plans to discuss the future of the competition this Saturday.

RENOWNED GAA patron Martin Donnelly has called on the GAA to allow the GPA to take ownership of the interprovincial football and hurling series to revive the sidelined competition.

GAA President Christy Cooney insisted the Association would not be ‘touting for business’ with regards the future usage of Croke Park by other sports.

DELEGATES were in no real mood to embrace changes in the playing rules experimented in the subsidiary competitions and the league in the early motions debated at last night’s opening session of the GAA Congress in Newcastle, Co. Down.

A QUICK glance at the agenda for the GAA’s annual congress, which opens in the Sliabh Donard Hotel in Newcastle, Co Down this evening, indicates that it’s going to be a very busy weekend for everyone in attendance.

DELEGATES at next month’s annual GAA Congress in Down face a mammoth session with 123 motions down for consideration.

FORMER Munster Council chairman Noel Walsh, one of the driving forces behind the campaign to open Croke Park up to other sports, is confident the GAA will consider future requests for the use of their ground after the completion of the Aviva Stadium redevelopment.

GAA president Christy Cooney believes soccer or rugby will never be played in Croke Park after 2010.

Martin Donnelly has been ploughing a lonely furrow for the GAA, sponsoring what were the Railway Cup competitions. He warned Michael Moynihan of hard times ahead, however.

CLARE will definitely proceed with the motion at next month’s GAA Congress in Cork to give a “permanent" entitlement to Central Council in rule to decide on any future requests for the use of Croke Park for rugby and soccer.

LAST night’s Munster Convention heard a cry for help from the province’s primary schools games body, Cumann na mBunscol, for their support in the appointment of a servicing officer.

NO OTHER competition organised by the GAA generates such conflicting emotions as the interprovincial games in hurling and football, for so long known as the Railway Cups.

WE HAD another stumble at the Munster U21 Hurling Final last Wednesday night. Tipp and Clare, not for the first time, served up a thriller before a massive crowd of 12,000 people. Everything was totally sporting and the hurling was excellent.

CHRISTY COONEY may gain some reassurance from the knowledge that only once in the last ten elections has the runner-up the previous time not been chosen President of the GAA and he remains favourite to edge out Liam O’Neill and Sean Fogarty in this afternoon’s vote at Congress in Sligo.

ALMOST a quarter of people would be worried about eating a meal prepared by someone with HIV.

GREATER consideration needs to be given to counties to assist them in meeting the huge annual costs of preparing inter-county teams, said Kerry County Board secretary Eamonn O’Sullivan at last night’s Munster Convention.

AMENDING Rule 42 to allow rugby and soccer be played in Croke Park has enhanced the profile of the GAA, according to president Sean Kelly.

A SUCCESSFUL IRFU planning process is crucial to the historic opening up of Croke Park for a rugby international in early 2007.

GAA PRESIDENT Sean Kelly is adamant the interprovincial competitions, sponsored for the third year by Martin Donnelly, have a future.

DESPITE Saturday’s landmark decision to relax Rule 42, a number of delegates opposed to the move have pointed out that Croke Park may still never play host to a soccer or rugby international.

CORK’S stance on Rule 42 will not “queer the pitch” for Saturday’s Congress debate on the opening up of Croke Park, leading GAA officials insisted last night.

DEMOCRACY “went out the window” with the decision of Cork GAA chiefs not to have any debate on a change to the Association’s Rule 42 this week, Castletownbere GAA club chairman Donie Kelly claimed yesterday.