Burns feels rules frustration

FORMER Armagh captain Jarlath Burns has called for decisions relating to playing rules to be taken out of Congress’s hands after the dismissal of the majority of the experimental rules in Newcastle, Co Down on Friday night.

Motions relating to the ‘mark’, the square-ball rule and the hand pass, on trial during the national leagues, all failed to receive the two-third majority required, although the debate on the former was largely positive prior to the vote.

The GAA’s regulations dictate that playing rules can only be visited every five years which means that it will be 2015 before similar ideas and proposals can be put to the yearly gathering.