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We never get on the main board so thought I'd give it a go.

Hopefully if Antrim are professional enough they should win this one? Anyone know if they are heading down the night before?

Hopefully Jody won't let them have a 'couple of pints'...like our other county managers!

Meant to be a slick enough production

NORTH ANTRIM LAUNCHES THE "COACHING THE GOALKEEPER" DVD IN THE LEIGHMHOR HOUSE ON FRI 7TH @2PM. 29 November 2007 A DVD produced by the North Antrim Coaching and Development Committee to be used as a coaching aid for goalkeepers from underage to senior level. It is introduced by Shane Elliott and features Shamrocks keeper DD Quinn, Ruairi Ogs Goalie Ronan Kearney, and Ballygalget and Down number one Graham Clarke. The dvd is a very high quality production, shot in Casement Park over the summer, it will give coaches 25 different drills to pick and choose from to put together a session which can also be used for outfield players. It is accepted now in coaching circles that their is a need for specialised goalkeeping drills, this dvd gives club coaches access to this type of specialised information that was not previously available.

Could anyone direct me to where I can read what rules/motions were passed etc this year.

Cheers

Please can anyone clarify what exactly was decided at Congress this year? Is there a list of the motions passed/returned?

My specific query comes in relation to the rule that a player playing football for a solely football club cannot then play hurling for a club which offers both.
This rule (I am not sure which number it was) came in last year... but went straight back for consideration.

Can anyone help?

Thanks.

Anyone direct me to a complete set of the current GAA rules online?

Thanks

Do not have the exact text of the rule handy - had it but lost it.
Basically the gist of the rule is that you can't play hurling for a club and football for another club where one of those clubs offers the other code as well.

What is the justification for this? I have debated and debated this (as I have been scuppered by it) and although people have put suggestions forward as to the reasoning behind it I can't see them.
Anyone try and persuade me why it is a good rule to have??

My example:
I have been playing GAA away from Ireland for the last 7 years, ever since I was 19.
I want to move back to my home village club to play hurling.
They had no juvenile set up when I was a youngster so I played for the neighbours, part of the parish, in both codes.
So now on returning at senior age I'd like to play for my village club at hurling. They have no football team and I would like to play football.
Naturally enough I'd like to play for the neighbours at gaelic, who I did play with earlier in life.

I am stopped by this rule and as a result have to leave my parish and the gaelic club I grew up with to move elsewhere to play football.

I understand that there may be a floodgates scenario - if by giving an exception to the rule many more may happen but I really can't comprehend why each case can't be looked at on a case by case basis. Its not an everyday situation - my home village club are a junior club while the club with both codes are a senior hurling team. They would not be competing with each other.

Where the GAA have paid officers who deal with this every day I am mystified as to why it can't be reviewed each time when such a situation arrives.

All I want to do is kick a bit of football and play hurling.

A bit of a bitter taste left in the mouth.

Sorry to bore you all but any comments appreciated...