Rule here to stay, warns GAA chief Duffy

CALLS for the GAA to abandon the new handpass rule were met with a firm and unequivocal response by the association’s Director General yesterday.

The rule, Páraic Duffy has declared, is here to stay.

Introduced at last month’s Congress, the tweaked handpass stipulation cannot be touched until 2015 as, under the GAA’s own guidelines, playing rule changes can only be dealt with every five years.