O’Neill in favour of reducing age of minor level to U17

The GAA are preparing to put forward a proposal making minor level an U17 competition after president Liam O’Neill said it could revolutionise fixture-making “big time”.

While insisting there is no appetite to take another look at making U21 level U20, a motion which failed in 2008, O’Neill revealed there are plans to drop the maximum age criteria of minor competitions by a year.

“We’re trying to formulate a policy at the moment where minor would become U17 and then those U17s would not play adult games,” he said.