Lies, damn lies and dubious team news

AT March’s Congress, a central GAA motion calling for teams to be issued to Director General Páraic Duffy for delivery to the media by 12pm four days prior to a Championship game failed to receive the required two-thirds backing by 4%.

So the existing rule remained: managers obliged to release teams for the directive of the programme by Wednesday noon prior to a match. Whether they want to publish the teams to the media is up to themselves.

Cork had a part in play in the proposal’s demise, PRO Tracey Kennedy backing the idea in principle but correctly pointing out that were it come into rule it would exacerbate the dummy team problem.