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Larry McCarthy announces the result of Motion 19, regarding the restructure of the GAA football championship, which did not get the required 60% to pass, and so failed, during the GAA Special Congress at Croke Park in Dublin<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By John Harrington<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GAA President, Larry McCarthy, says he hopes to see new plans drafted for a restructuring of the All-Ireland SFC in the very near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both motions that proposed such restructuring were defeated at GAA Special Congress today, but there was nevertheless clearly an appetite for change in the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Motion 19, which proposed using the current League structures as the basis for a restructured All-Ireland Senior Football Championship received the support of 50.6% of delegates which fell short of the 60% majority required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCarthy was disappointed it failed, but is determined to bring forward further All-Ireland SFC restructure plans in the near future.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having said during the week that I hoped we’d be bold, based on the result, for me, we weren’t bold enough in terms of it didn’t pass,” said McCarthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But having said that we’re looking forward to a pretty altered landscape anyway for the Championship in 2021.”But, yeah, I would have liked to have seen it pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I expect that we will revisit this very, very quickly. I’m not so sure we’ll have something for (Annual Congress 2022) in February but there’s a majority for change and every speaker said they’d like change. In a lot of cases it just wasn’t the change that was proposed, but there’s certainly a mandate there for change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We will contemplate and see how we will bring forward some alternatives in terms of the options that are put on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think everyone who spoke against it prefaced their remark by saying we want change, we just don’t like this change. And we also got 50.9% of people looking for change, so that would appear to me to be a huge mandate to push on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GAA Director General, Tom Ryan, didn’t rule out the possibility of bringing forward further All-Ireland SFC restructure proposals to either Annual Congress 2022 or a Special Congress later in 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s a challenge, there’s no point saying otherwise. But is it possible to do? Of course it is,” he said. “As we went through this process there were other options considered as part of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“There are plenty of other permutations but it’s not quite the same as going back to a blank sheet of paper. There’s still a huge amount of value in all of the work and thought went into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“To the extent that it’s possible to expedite something from where we are today, we’re not in a bad position. But there’s no point in saying that it’s straightforward either there’s a fair bit of work ahead of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“But half of the people in the room and hopefully that means half the people in the country supported what was specifically in front of them today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Another positive from today is that we know what the sticking points are. I think there’s a core of an idea there and acceptance that there’s a momentum and will to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“And we know what the tricky bits are around the edge of that. The provincial championships and where they fit into the scheme of things is clearly one. We’ll have to acknowledge that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither of the two motions that proposed restructuring the All-Ireland SFC were successful at GAA Special Congress Saturday October 23rd 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Motion 18, the eight-team provincial championship motion, was heavily defeated with 90% of delegates voting against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Motion 19, which proposed using the current League structures as the basis for a restructured All-Ireland Senior Football Championship received the support of 50.6% of delegates which fell short of the 60% majority required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Motion was debated passionately for over an hour by delegates both in favour and against the motion, but in the end was defeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means that for 2022 the Central Competitions Control Committee will recommend to the GAA’s Central Council that we revert to the current provincial championship structures with qualifiers, the Tailteann Cup, and knock-out quarter-finals rather than the round-robin quarter-finals that were in place for the 2018 and 2019 campaigns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three motions were passed at today’s special congress. Motion One has redesignated the current Development Officer rule as a newly defined Planning and Training officer and the current safety officer as the newly defined Safety and Facilities Officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The passing of Motion 3 establishes in rule an Audit and Risk Committee as a sub-committee of the County Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The passing of Motion 11 extended the definition of the county committee to include the newly created Safety and Facilities Officer.<\/p>\n

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