GAA Congress: All-Ireland Football Championship revamp backed with big majority
The first move in the town of Donegal on Saturday saw a move to shed light on the surgery of the defeated person.
Tipperary’s movement requires a new rule in which players will no longer be able to manually use the same hand holding the Sliotar.
This is because it is widely believed that players escape widespread illegal surgery in modern games.
However, the motion received only 32.4% support, a motion that was beaten strongly – well below the two-thirds majority required for rule changes.
A motion proposes that in order to play inter-county champion football, players must play in four club league games during the same calendar year and are withdrawn after a long debate.
Kevin O’Donovan, CEO of Cork GAA, described the bill as “unfeasible and unenforceable,” despite the motion’s main advocate Noel McCaffer, a former Dublin player Noel McCaffrey rejected the motion, who spoke on behalf of the Clontarf club, who submitted the motion.
GAA Chairman Jarlath Burns then suggested McCaffrey withdraw the motion in an attempt to amend it for next year’s Congress and then agree to the plan.
If the team is level after normal time and if the team is level after overtime, a replay of the All-Ireland Senior Final is required to avoid a penalty shootout in the provincial final, thus being withdrawn and delayed to a special General Assembly.
Donegal chairman Mary Coughlan opposed the provincial finals’ penalty shootout in the provincial final, although her own county won the Ulster final against Armagh in this way.
