GAA’s Hurling Development Committee to recommend sterner dissent rule

The GAA’s Hurling Development Committee (HDC) are to recommend the game adopts a sterner dissent rule, similar to the one that has been introduced to Gaelic football. Pic: Ray McManus/Sportsfile.

The GAA’s Hurling Development Committee (HDC) are to recommend the game adopts a sterner dissent rule, similar to the one that has been introduced to Gaelic football.

As well as the removal of the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals from next year, the HDC will propose to Central Council next month that a player who displays dissent to the awarding of a free against his team is punished more severely.