WICKLOW GAA have got the go ahead to provide a €10 million training centre and school of excellence for all their county teams.

The project provides for the construction of five full-size all weather pitches and a gymnasium - incorporating fitness and treatment rooms and weight training facilities - on a 50-acre site on the outskirts of Rathdrum.

County Development chairman Victor O'Shaughnessy welcomed the granting of planning permission by Wicklow County Council and described it as a great step forward for the GAA in Wicklow.

Wicklow County Council has imposed conditions on the project, relating to the approach road which has to be widened.

O'Shaughnessy said work on the project would start next year and they would now be completing the tendering process.

Tipperary officials are searching for a minor hurling team manager after Declan Ryan confirmed he had stepped down.

Ryan, along with coach Tommy Dunne, guided the Premier County to All-Ireland minor glory in 2007 but the county lost to Cork in this year's Munster final.

County board chairman John Costigan has confirmed the reappointment of Liam Sheedy as senior hurling team manager, while John Evans has agreed to another season in charge of the senior footballers.

Declan Carr's second season over the under-21 hurling squad has also been rubberstamped.

• THE PRESIDENT of the GAA Nickey Brennan has expressed his deepest sympathies and those of the association to the family of Galway hurler Paul Flynn.

Paul was a member of the Tommy Larkins club and was part of the team side that won the Galway intermediate championship in 2007 and played in the All-Ireland intermediate club final of February last.

He won an All-Ireland under-21 medal with Galway in 2005 and earlier this year represented the county at intermediate level and was also a member of the senior panel.

Brennan expressed condolences on behalf of the association to Paul's family and friends, to his Garda Síochána colleagues and to his club and county team-mates.