GAA to regulate hurleys and faceguards

Ash supplies will be gone in three years, GAA committee chair Ned Quinn has been told.

A 2017 DCU study of adult male and female players found almost a third of them admitted to modifying their helmet/faceguard. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

Faceguards and hurleys are to be regulated by the GAA as they look to heighten safety standards around the sport’s playing apparatus.

As they did with the sliotar, a Croke Park committee are in the final stages of developing a standardised faceguard, which will have to replicated by officially licensed manufacturers.