GAA in motion: Main items on clar

FDC proposals to reform football championship: Included in the provisions are the abolition of the National League and the creation…

FDC proposals to reform football championship: Included in the provisions are the abolition of the National League and the creation of two, 11-county conferences comprising the top teams in Connacht/Ulster and Munster/Leinster, a round-robin format of 10 matches per team and the consequent tabulation of the respective provincial championships. A third section would be contested by weaker counties.

Three other motions, two from Mayo and one from Cork, proposing alternative restructuring of football championship.

Disciplinary provisions: Approval of measures introduced on an experimental basis last year.

Proposals from Policy and Planning Committee and Club Fixtures Committee.

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All inter-county matches to be of 70 minutes duration and five substitutes to be allowed, both provisions in line with the current National Leagues experiment.

Tighter specifications for footballs and sliotars.

Extra-time reforms to include the exclusion of players sent off during normal time, the carrying-over of yellow cards picked up in normal time.

Tyrone propose that experiments with the playing rules and any amendments which arise therefrom not be allowed in the year 2005 (playing rules can be changed only every five years), apparently with a view to extending this moratorium to 10 years.

Abolition of the pick-up rule to allow lifting.

Establishment of a special structure to deal with the implementation of the drug-testing programme which won't be subject to the normal appeals procedure.

Allowing minor championships to be played in June, currently not used because of school examinations.

Extending the size of official panels for matches, and the striking of 24, rather than 21, medals.

Supporting closer links with the women's associations, the concept of alliance supported by January's Women's Forum.

Referring back technically-deficient motions to the proposers for correction rather than ruling them out-of-order.