By Cian O'Connell

Motion 13 was defeated at GAA Congress ensuring the black card/sin bin will not be introduced for hurling.

At Croke Park on Saturday 82% of delegates voted against the motion.

This motion proposed to introduce a black-card in hurling on a similar basis to which it already applies in football - to deliberately pull down an opponent; to deliberately trip an opponent with hand, arm, leg, foot or hurley; to deliberately collide with an opponent after the opponent has played the ball away for for the purpose of taking the opponent out of the movement of play; to remonstrate in an aggressive manner with a match official; to threaten or to use abusive or provocative language or gestures to an opponent or team-mate.

The black-card penalty would be 10 minutes in a sin-bin. If the player has already been yellow-carded, then he is show a black-card followed by a red-card. A player who receives a second black-card or a yellow-card after returning to the field of play from the sin-bin would be red-carded.

David Hassan, Chairman of the Standing Committe on Playing rules spoke in favour before responses from Antrim's Ciaran McCavana, Wicklow's Jackie Napier, and Kilkenny's Jimmy Walsh.

GPA representative Seamus Hickey said: "We polled 1116 players from our championship squads. That's almost a 100 per cent response rate; 89 per cent of players were against this motion."