International Rules set to become a biennial event

IT now seems all but certain that there will be no International Rules Series played next year with the fixtures between Ireland and Australia reverting to a biennial arrangement.

GAA officials, currently in Australia for the U-17 series, met with their AFL counterparts in Melbourne last week and expressed the wish for the new schedule be put in place with immediate effect.

"I think the likelihood is that you won't have a series in Australia next year," GAA Head of Games Pat Daly told a Melbourne newspaper.