GAA chief backs inter-county season extension into August

Ard Stiúrthóir of the GAA Tom Ryan. Pic: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho

GAA director general Tom Ryan endorses the extension of the inter-county calendar by two weeks into August.

A motion by a committee led by Ryan’s predecessor Páraic Duffy has been put forward to stage the All-Ireland senior football final in the second week of August and the hurling decider at the end of July.