Standing Committee
34 results

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 (...)

Scores of protesters were still holed up in a tense siege in a Hong Kong university on Tuesday after many surrendered overnight, including more than 2(...)

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(...)

Central Council must take their chance to change the game
- Gaelic Games
- January 16, 2019, 06:30
It’s early in the year for a meeting of such consequence but this Saturday the GAA’s Central Council have to decide on the future of the experimental (...)

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(...)

Running the rule over the GAA’s new football rules
- Gaelic Football
- November 17, 2018, 07:00
On a clear and mild Thursday night in the middle of October, three freshers football teams went out to the GAA pitch in Abbotstown and tried out some (...)

The data behind the proposed rule changes in Gaelic football
- Gaelic Football
- October 13, 2018, 09:00
“Do players get a say in these rules? Some absolute ridiculous decisions . . .why change the game based on one or two bad matches? The #GAA has lost i(...)

Ned Quinn to chair GAA’s Central Competitions Control Committee
- Gaelic Games
- February 27, 2018, 22:18
Ned Quinn is the new chair of the GAA’s Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC), which oversees central Association issues including fixtures a(...)

One man’s global campaign to help children of priests
- Religion & Beliefs
- August 19, 2017, 02:00
It was the early 1980s when they first met at a wedding in Co Cavan. Fr John J Doyle (44) was a Co Longford Spiritan (Holy Ghost) priest, home from t(...)

Xi Jinping tightens grip on power ahead of Communist Party congress
- Asia-Pacific
- July 13, 2017, 01:00
The Korean nuclear crisis and dealings with the mercurial US president Donald Trump come at an awkward time for Chinese leader Xi Jinping, who is keen(...)