A meeting of the GAA’s Management Committee held earlier this evening considered recommendations from the Task Force established by Uachtarán CLG, Labhrás Mac Carthaigh, in relation to proposals on the potential restructure of the 2023 All-Ireland Senior Football Championships.

The Management Committee agreed that two proposals should be circulated to Counties for further consideration and discussion with a view to Ard-Chomhairle making a final decision at their meeting on January 22nd on which one, if either, proposal should be submitted to Annual Congress in February as an Ard-Chomhairle motion for change.

The proposals broadly reflect two main approaches:

1. Red Proposal – a Round Robin Provincial Championship in February/March, followed by a national league type championship from April – July (i.e. an improved Proposal B)
2. Green Proposal - Retention of the current Allianz League and Provincial championships followed by Round Robin groups in the Sam Maguire and Tailteann Cups.

The guiding principles adopted by the work group in their consideration of proposals were to:

• Raise standards by providing more games at an appropriate level for all teams, but especially Developing Counties
• Retain any positive aspects of the current structures where possible
• Ensure meaningless games/dead rubbers are kept to a minimum
• Fit the available calendar footprint
• Retain current number of opportunities to win a trophy and give all teams a chance of winning Sam Maguire
• Be easy to understand and have public acceptance

Initial briefings for county and provincial officers, to outline the specifics of each proposal, will take place next week. Further briefings will be scheduled in early January to allow for considered debate at Ard-Chomhairle on January 22nd.