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RTÉ News
24-05-2025
- Business
- RTÉ News
Jarlath Burns and Tom Ryan to meet with Mayo officials amid financial situation
GAA president Jarlath Burns and director general Tom Ryan are to attend a special meeting of the Mayo county board on Monday evening. Mayo have been in the headlines recently concerning a revenue audit during which a voluntary disclosure of almost €120,000 was made in relation to potential tax liability for the Cúl Camps programme. At their county convention last December, Mayo GAA stated that the amount was a "legacy issue relating to outstanding tax liabilities from our Cúl Camp's programme in 2018 and 2019." Furthermore a loan extended to Mayo by the GAA's Central Council in 2015 to assume the county's debt has been the subject of speculation which was denied last week by the treasurer of the Mayo board. After March's Allianz Football League final in Croke Park, which Mayo lost to Kerry, Burns made remarks in his presentation speech which were clearly supportive of Mayo's officers. Burns' and Ryan's presence at the special meeting on Monday night in Westport is seen as extending further support as well as giving delegates an opportunity to clarify any queries.
Irish Examiner
29-04-2025
- Sport
- Irish Examiner
Jarlath Burns: All-Ireland finals will not return to August in 2026
GAA president Jarlath Burns has stated the All-Ireland finals will not return to August in 2026. Despite last year floating the idea of the inter-county season returning to a finish in September, Burns ruled out the deciders being played in the eighth month of the year and suggested it will be a matter for his successor. 'It's not a non-runner for the future. This year it's out, next year it's out as well,' he told the GAA+ magazine programme Ratified on which he made the September comments 12 months ago. 'But it's going to be the next president who will make that decision, whether or not we go into August. 'It's probably not going to be my decision, but I would be open to it, notwithstanding the health warning that comes with the whole area of starting the club championship. We were showing so little respect to the club player that there was literally a group set up called the Club Player Association and they had one word, fixtures. 'We solved that for them. Let's not now go and unsolve it. So you fix one problem and you create another problem. But I think that there is generally an understanding that moving into the first and third weeks of August mightn't be the worst thing. 'But you have to remember this also – we have LGFA, they have their All-Ireland finals as well. And we have camogie, they have their All-Ireland finals here too. And we also have to allow for a replay in hurling and football and a replay in LGFA and Camogie. So that takes up a good bit of August. 'And I'm going to say the next thing without any apology – we also have concerts in this. And the Croke Park is now the major funding organ of the GAA. Let's not forget that. This stadium is keeping our organisation financially viable. Because without the €16 million or €18m that is given by Croke Park to the GAA, it costs us €20m every year to pay the 350 coaches we have going around full-time promoting our games.' Admitting he was severely criticised for supporting the GPA's proposal to suspend the pre-season competitions, Burns said the Ulster Council lost €250,000 as a result of the McKenna Cup. 'If there's anything that I got the most severe criticism over, it was supporting the GPA over the ending of the pre-season competitions. In my own province, I went to the Ulster Convention and they were queueing up to criticise me over that. 'That cost about about a quarter of a million dollars to the Ulster Council and I would understand why they'd be cross with me supporting the GPA, but I did it for player welfare. That's what the GAA president has to be always cognisant of." Burns said he was surprised by the negative reaction to the Football Review Committee making changes to their list of rules after the fifth round of the Allianz Football League. He said that entitlement was part of the enabling motion that was passed at Special Congress last November. He added that it will be 10 years before the moves being overseen by the hurling development committee to expand the game in weaker counties will come to fruition.
Irish Times
24-04-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
Louth and Kildare face-off for last remaining place in race for the Sam Maguire
Set against some of the ever-changing complexities of Gaelic football, the situation facing Louth and Kildare in Tullamore this Sunday could not be more straightforward. Or the consequences of victory or defeat more telling on the rest of their 2025 season. It's winner takes all, and no time for losers. The first prize is a place in the Leinster football final, which for both Louth and Kildare carries enough incentive on its own. Louth are chasing a third successive final appearance for the first time in over 100 years; Kildare haven't won the Leinster title since the turn of the century. Just as, or perhaps more, importantly the winners will also get the bonus prize of securing the last remaining place in the All-Ireland senior football series and the 16 counties in the race for the Sam Maguire. While the losers will join the other 16 counties that will contest the second-tier Tailteann Cup. It's also a repeat of last year's semi-final, which Louth won by four points in Croke Park, and with that sending Kildare into the Tailteann Cup for the first time. Louth have contested the 16-team All-Ireland senior football series since it began in 2023. READ MORE The winners will face either Dublin or Meath in the Leinster final, but for now all the focus is on Sunday at Glenisk O'Connor Park (2pm). Despite finishing sixth in Division 2 of the Allianz Football League, Louth's only path to Sam Maguire football this summer is to make that Leinster final given how other provincial pairings have turned out elsewhere. Same for Kildare, who topped Division 3 and lost the final to Offaly. The 15 teams already qualified for the All-Ireland series are Armagh, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Derry, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Galway, Kerry, Mayo, Meath, Monaghan, Roscommon and Tyrone. These teams are decided principally on the placings in the two top divisions of the Allianz Football League. Louth's Niall McDonnell saving a shot from Daniel Flynn of Kildare in th 2024 semi-final at Croke Park. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho Down qualified as winners of last year's Tailteann Cup, and could also still make the Ulster football final if they manage to get past Donegal in Clones this Sunday. Clare, who finished third in Division 3 behind Kildare and Offaly, qualified by virtue of making the Munster football final, and will face Kerry in Killarney on Sunday week, May 4th. Louth manager Ger Brennan pointed out some of the structural discrepancies after his team overcame Laois in the quarter-final and believes the GAA may need to look again at exactly how the All-Ireland football series teams are decided. 'We all want to play in the All-Ireland series, as do the two teams that played here, and all the other games going on around Leinster,' said Brennan. 'If you didn't finish high enough in your league table then reaching a provincial table is that bit of a carrot. 'Although it is a bit of a lopsided structure when you look at what's going to come out of Munster, and it's something they will need to look at going forward. But everyone knows what's at stake in terms of keeping Sam Maguire status and getting to a Leinster final.' Louth manager Ger Brennan: he is in his second season as Louth football manager. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho Brennan is in his second season as Louth football manager, and the former Dublin All-Ireland winner is also aware of the history at stake on Sunday. When Louth beat Westmeath in the 2010 Leinster semi-final, that set up their first final appearance in 50 years. They last won the title in 1957. If they beat Kildare this time around it will set up a third successive Leinster final, a feat Louth only achieved once before in history, between 1912 and 1914. They beat Dublin in the 1912 final but lost to Wexford in both 1913 and 1914. Kildare last qualified for the final in 2022, and last won the Leinster football title in 2000. For Brian Flanagan, in his first season as Kildare manager, there were certainly positives from their 2-17 to 0-21 win over Westmeath in their quarter-final, 'just that refusal to lose', Flanagan said, and 'to give ourselves that confidence booster going into the next couple of weeks'. Last year, while their home ground in Newbridge was being renovated, Kildare played their home Tailteann Cup games at their training centre in Hawkfield, before only a few hundred supporters. Whoever wins on Sunday will also join Kerry, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Tyrone or Armagh, Donegal or Down, and Dublin or Meath as first or second seeds in the All-Ireland series. The draws for the round-robin groups in both the Sam Maguire and Tailteann Cup competitions will then take place next Tuesday, April 29th. Kildare manager Brian Flanagan: he is in his first season as Kildare manager. Photograph: Leah Scholes/Inpho The Tailteann Cup then starts on May 10th/11th, while the race for the Sam Maguire gets under way on the May 17th/18th. New York also join in the Tailteann Cup in the preliminary quarter-final stage. Whoever loses between Louth and Kildare will be among the top seeds in the Tailteann Cup draw, along with Offaly, Westmeath and Fermanagh. Sligo, Laois, Wexford and Limerick will be second seeds, the third seeds consisting of Antrim, Leitrim, Wicklow and Carlow. Kildare v Louth: Last five Championship meetings 2024: Louth 0-17 Kildare 0-13 (Leinster Semi-Final) 2022: Kildare 2-22 Louth 0-12 (Leinster Quarter-Final) 2014: Kildare 1-22 Louth 1-7 (Leinster Quarter-Final) 2013: Kildare 1-19 Louth 0-15 (All-Ireland Qualifier) 2010: Louth 1-22 Kildare 1-16 (Leinster Quarter-Final)
BBC News
19-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Fermanagh's pain 'hard to put into words'
Conor Love said it was "hard to put into words" Fermanagh's crushing disappointing after Down snatched a dramatic 2-19 to 0-23 Ulster SFC victory at Brewster Park. Love's all-action display, which included scoring 0-5 and still earned him the man-of-the-match award, helped Fermanagh lead by seven points with eight minutes remaining only for Daniel Guinness and Ryan McEvoy goals to earn Down an unlikely win."Honestly, I can't even think about what happened there in the last 10 minutes," said a clearly devastated Love as Fermanagh remained without an Ulster Championship win since 2018."We can play the football. We're as good as any team. Honestly…….but there's no point thinking about it now."The Enniskillen Gaels club-man admitted however that the squad are going to have to study their late collapse, painful viewing as it will undoubtedly be, adding that it was not the first time they have thrown away seemingly a winning lead."We're going to have to look at it again. To lose it like that, it's happened too much the last years."The arrival of the new football rules - and in particular the two-point score - led to a series of comebacks during the Allianz Football League and Love said Fermanagh had inflicting something similar on Sligo when fighting back to draw the Division Three contest at Brewster Park on 1 March."That's the thing with the new game. We've been the other way with Sligo in the League when we were seven down."It's not like we weren't aware that that could happen. It happened but you're never ready for that."
Yahoo
18-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Fermanagh vs Down: Live stream and TV information, throw-in time, betting odds and all you need to know ahead of today's Ulster SFC quarter-final
Fermanagh take on Down in the third of this season's Ulster SFC quarter-finals in what could be the toughest one to call. Both counties will ply their trade in Division Three of the Allianz Football League next season after Fermanagh finished fourth this year with Down dropping from Division Two along with Westmeath. Kieran Donnelly's side were beaten by eventual All-Ireland champions Armagh in the quarter-final last year before the Orchard County squeezed past the Mournemen in the Ulster semi-final. Read more: Kilcoo move swiftly to appoint former Meath coaches and ex-Derry boss to management ticket Read more: Fermanagh goalkeeper Sean McNally opens up on 'annoying' rule changes ahead of Down date The Erne County are without a win in the provincial series since losing to Donegal in the 2018 decider while Down are already assured of their place in the Sam Maguire having won the Tailteann Cup last year. Here's all the information you need to know ahead of today's Ulster SFC quarter-final. . . Fermanagh vs Down is on Saturday, April 19 in Brewster Park, Enniskillen Today's game starts at 4pm. Today's game is being broadcast live on BBC2 NI and streamed on BBC iPlayer and GAA+. Belfast Live Sport will be live blogging all the action from today's game. Fermanagh 11/2 Draw 13/1 Down 1/7 Sign up to our free sports newsletter to get the latest headlines to your inbox
