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GAA President Nickey Brennan confirmed today that the 2008 National Football and Hurling League finals will not take place at Croke Park.

Representatives of the AFL and GAA held their first get-together since the 2006 International Rules series when AFL Chief Executive Andrew Demetriou and the GAA’s President Nickey Brennan and Player Welfare Manager Paraic Duffy met in Paris on Thursday.

GAA President Nickey Brennan is not being drawn on whether or not the future of the Martin Donnelly Interprovincial football and hurling championships rests solely on whether or not the competitions are deemed a success this autumn.

GAA President Nickey Brennan has lashed out at some of the comments made by Cork hurlers Dsnal Sg Cusack, Sean Sg S hAilpmn and Diarmuid O'Sullivan in the statement they issued to the Irish Examiner last week.

GAA PRESIDENT Nickey Brennan believes that Barcelona’s Nou Camp stadium is not a patch on Croke Park.

GAA PRESIDENT Nickey Brennan has admitted that GAA regulations are not stringent enough to curb “unsightly” pitch incursions by mentors and officials.