David Hassan
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The 12 days of 2020: How the pandemic handed the GAA a new template
- Gaelic Games
- December 23, 2020, 06:00
And so the year like no other ended. It may have a pretty similar companion in 2021 but there’ll hardly be the same shocks to the system. In history g(...)

Seán Moran: Just like the Tories, the GAA is also fed up with experts
- Gaelic Games
- March 4, 2020, 06:07
Much loved British Conservative politician Michael Gove conjured one immortal quote back during the 2016 EU referendum when he said that he believed, (...)

GAA Congress: New back-pass rule to come into play for championship
- Gaelic Games
- March 1, 2020, 19:05
Football’s new back-pass rule will be in force for this year’s provincial and All-Ireland championships. The decision to implement almost immediately (...)

Seán Moran: Hurling community uncomfortable being treated like football
- Gaelic Games
- February 5, 2020, 06:00
With the growing likelihood that the GAA will introduce or at least propose some deterrent for cynical or calculated fouls in hurling, the small ball (...)

David Gough questions appropriateness of All-Ireland red card sanction
- Gaelic Games
- January 14, 2020, 05:00
All-Ireland football referee David Gough has questioned to what extent the sending-off of Jonny Cooper in last September’s drawn final was justified b(...)

Seán Moran: Congress makes short work of serious motions
- Gaelic Games
- October 23, 2019, 05:00
Happy that the Tier 2 football championship that he had championed had made it into the Official Guide, GAA president John Horan struck a somewhat mor(...)

Football moves swiftly along after hand-pass changes abandoned
- Gaelic Football
- January 21, 2019, 06:00
Central Council’s decision on Saturday to abandon an experimental rule restricting footballers to three successive hand passes wasn’t long being imple(...)

Restriction on hand-passing teetering on the brink of rejection
- Gaelic Games
- January 19, 2019, 06:00
The restriction on the hand-pass is teetering on the brink of rejection at Saturday’s meeting of the GAA’s Central Council at Croke Park. It has also(...)

David Hassan: New football rules based on ‘robust’ analysis
- Gaelic Games
- January 11, 2019, 06:00
The GAA’s highly regarded (sold out, again) annual Games Development Conference gets under way this weekend in Croke Park, and there may be particular(...)

Committee chairman mounts stout defence of new football rules
- Gaelic Games
- November 28, 2018, 06:00
David Hassan isn’t part of the Twitterati, nor does he have a Facebook profile, but the former Derry dual player has an idea of what’s being said abo(...)