Croker debate shelved again

FOR the second successive year, opening up Croke Park will not be debated on the Congress floor, as the eight motions relating to Rule 42 have been declared out of order by the GAA’s motions committee.

Last year, motions relating to the decisive issue were also ruled out of order by Croke Park’s vetting committee and yet again, a technicality, this time relating to an amendment of Rule 5 that was not quoted, has cut Rule 42 from the ‘clár’.

Apart from the Rule 5 amendment it is understood there were difficulties relating to Rule 43 and Rule 44, with some of the proposals, which state that all property of the Association be used exclusively for Gaelic games.