Prenty wants Provincial Council to police training rules

No senior, U20, or minor inter-county panel should be permitted to return to collective training before December 1, according to Connacht secretary John Prenty, who has called on Croke Park to hand over governance of training ban rules to provincial councils.

No senior, U20, or minor inter-county panel should be permitted to return to collective training before December 1, according to Connacht secretary John Prenty, who has called on Croke Park to hand over governance of training rules to provincial councils.

Counties knocked out in Rounds 1, 2, and 3 of this year’s All-Ireland SFC qualifiers can tomorrow return to collective training ahead of the new season. The hurlers of Galway, Clare, and Waterford - each of whom failed to emerge from their respective provincial round-robin series this summer - are also allowed to begin collective preparations for 2020 tomorrow.