Munster Council chief executive Simon Moroney has expressed strong reservations over a proposal to bring forward the provincial football championships to mid-April.

Former Munster Council chairman Sean Fogarty has called for the abolition of the provincial football championships and a significant reduction in the power wielded by provincial councils.

Douglas 3-16 Duhallow 1-13 (Cork SHC): He may only have been a bit player in Jimmy Barry-Murphy’s inter-county plans in recent seasons but Stephen Moylan was very much centre-stage after Douglas downed fancied divisional outfit Duhallow in Coachford on Saturday.

Austin Stacks 1-13 St Michael’s/Foilmore 2-6: Champions Austin Stacks opened their Kerry SFC title defence with a laboured victory over St Michael’s/Foilmore at Austin Stack Park Tralee on Saturday night.

Former Munster and Tipperary chairman Sean Fogarty has criticised the county board for "making a bags" of their fixture list after they conceded another provincial club fixture.

Colaiste Phobal Roscrea 2-16 Cross and Passion College 0-10

Gardaí in Clondalkin have located the body of 38-year-old Sean Fogerty who was missing from his home at Newlands Road, Clondalkin, Dublin.

Former Munster chairman Sean Fogarty has called on the GAA to relax the parish rule to help save rural clubs.

After a tense and dramatic SFC losers round encounter at Blennerville, St Michael’s/Foilmore came from behind to pip St Brendan’s with late goal.

WAS I in Croke Park Saturday? Go figure. There are none so blind as those who did not wish to hear the barking of a dog.

SO thorough and so well thought out is, Árd Stiúrthóir, Páraic Duffy’s discussion paper on GAA amateur status and payment to managers, finally released this week, that it seems all that is left for today’s gathering in Croke Park to do is firstly to decide upon which of the three proposed intervention options is least likely to leave the Association open to charges of double standards and secondly to assign figures to any putative payments to inter-county managers.

FORMER Presidential candidate Seán Fogarty has warned the GAA is hurtling towards professionalism.

LIMERICK senior hurling manager John Allen has revealed that he is planning for the vast majority of next year’s National Hurling League without experienced defender Seamus Hickey.

The GAA will today formalise Liam O’Neill’s election as GAA president after all other candidates pulled out for the first time in the modern era, Jim O’Sullivan looks into how it happened.

Laois man Liam O'Neill has become the first person to declare himself as a candidate in the race to succeed Cork native Christy Cooney as GAA President.

UNUSUALLY for the GAA Congress which can often turn into a boring, long drawn-out affairs, the weekend gathering of delegates delivered the full gamut of emotions. They ranged from the frustration of opponents of the government grant scheme in losing the final battle, to the exultation of president-elect Christy Cooney on succeeding second time round with 60 votes to spare.

Christy Cooney is turning his thoughts to how he plans to lead the country's largest sporting organisation have been elected as successor to Nickey Brennan as GAA president on Saturday.

Cork's Christy Cooney is set to follow in the footsteps of Nickey Brennan as the next President of the GAA.

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.

GAA presidential candidate Liam O'Neill has heaped praise on outgoing Taoiseach Bertie Ahern for his support of the GAA and its activities during his term of office.

KERRY could soon be toppled from its pre-eminent position in Gaelic football — by strict rural planning policies.

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.

LIAM O’NEILL, who replaced Nickey Brennan as Leinster Council chairman and has ambitions to succeed him as GAA President, has admitted that circumstances forced him to declare his 2008 candidature earlier than he would have wished.

NICKEY BRENNAN yesterday paid tribute to the GAA’s first president Maurice Davin for his role in ‘bestowing the gift of the GAA on the Irish nation’.

NICKEY BRENNAN led the tributes to the former GAA president Seamus Ó Riain from Tipperary who died on Saturday.

ULSTER Council chairman Micheal Greenan admits Tyrone may face sanction over manager Mickey Harte’s decision to use four “ineligible” college players in Sunday’s Dr McKenna Cup tie against Derry.

THURSDAY night’s howling gale from the south-west wasn’t propelled just by meteorological forces; it was augmented by a collective wave of relief coming from those charged with retaining the good name of football in the Kingdom.

A RECORD number of sports stars of the future were presented with college scholarships last night.

FORGET about a radical solution for the hurling championship because it means only one thing: an open draw.

I WISH to congratulate Sean Fogarty, chairman of the Munster Council, on his sensible article regarding the training of players in the recent programme for the Munster football final.

MUNSTER COUNCIL chairman Sean Fogarty has called on local authorities to relax planning laws in an effort to assist the GAA in rural areas.

TICKET prices for Sunday’s Munster SFC final replay between Cork and Kerry at Páirc Uí Chaoimh (3.30) will be as they were for the draw in Killarney (€30 stand and €20 terrace).