Congress set for largest number of motions since 1995

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

The biggest number of motions submitted since 1995 (when there were 111), they chiefly relate to the experiments carried out during the National Leagues along with the subsidiary provincial competitions earlier in the year.

One of the motions, supported by several counties, relates to the mark, about which Director-General Páraic Duffy spoke enthusiastically at yesterday’s release of his report. A call for the introduction of match bans (in place of time-based suspensions) will be made by the Grattan Óg club from Longford. They propose, for instance, that a two-week suspension should be replaced by a two-match ban, with a 24-week suspension incurring a 10-game ban.