LIAM MULVIHILL, the director general of the GAA, has said the review of last year's All Ireland football final replay, including the punch up, is continuing. The number of violent incidents in games was also a concern and these issues would be fully tackled in a report that would be ready for discussion by Central Council in the near future.

Speaking at Saturday's Central Council meeting, Mulvihill said it was an important matter and they "certainly don't intend walking away from it."

The reprieve handed out on Saturday by the GAA to 31 suspended players enabled Donegal manager P J McGowan to introduce two of them, Manus Boyle and Damien Diver, during yesterday's league match against Derry.

Donegal still lost but McGowan at least has his suspended players back, their penalties reduced from six to three months. All 31 had been suspended for playing illegally in the US but the Central Council's decision, acting on the recommendation of the Reinstatements (Mercy) Committee, cleared the way for most of them to begin playing football again.

It also meant that Cavan manager Martin McHugh could resume his duties along the touchline yesterday while the Kerry trio of Dara O Se, Dara O Cinneide and Fergal O Se are now available to manager Paidi O Se again. Cavan's Fintan Cahill and Bernard Morris, Martin Flanagan of Westmeath, Monaghan's Joe Coyle and Armagh's Kieran McGeeney were other high profile appellants.

The meeting was attended by three delegates from the New York Board. Mulvihill told the meeting the delegates had pledged to take action against the offending New York clubs before Congress in April.

Delegates also approved a proposal to raise All Ireland final and semi final ticket prices for the Hogan Stand while Limerick's sponsorship deal with the Midwestern Health Board, which includes a anti drugs slogan on team jerseys, was also approved.