The proposal to hand Central Council the authority to open GAA county grounds to rival codes and events won't have have any impact on club facilities.
Motion number 19 of the 43 that will be considered by Congress later this month in Wexford, calls for a significant amendment to the rule regarding Control of Association Property.
It's a direct response by the GAA to the Liam Miller benefit game controversy of last autumn when a weight of public pressure came on the Association to agree to host the game at Cork's Pairc Ui Chaoimh.
The GAA initially rejected that idea and said it felt 'bullied' into ultimately bending its own rule to accommodate the fund raising soccer match.
Director General Tom Ryan says in his report to Congress that he felt 'uncomfortable' about loosely interpreting a GAA rule in order to allow the game to go ahead, and the upcoming motion seeks to avoid this happening again.
It asks for Central Council to be granted the power, in exceptional circumstances, to authorise the use of GAA grounds and property around the country for non-GAA activities.
When this proposal was first mooted, it prompted fears that clubs nationwide may be inundated with requests to hold, for example, local soccer and rugby training and games.
The GAA has clarified, however, that the Congress proposal deals with county grounds only and club property would still remain completely off limits for non-GAA use.
Back in 2016, the Dromard club in Longford was fined EUR2,000 for hosting the Jamie Carragher school there the previous summer and this activity would also still remain illegal.
The wording of rule 5.1, which deals with the use of GAA property, has been generally tidied up and softened in the proposal which replaces the term 'not in conflict' with the words 'which accord with the aims of the Association'.
Meanwhile, motion number 39 from Donegal could put an end to Dublin playing two of their three games in the Super 8s series of the football Championship at Croke Park.
Counties that reach the All-Ireland quarter-final stage are handed one home game, one away game and one Croke Park game though, in Dublin's case, this meant two of their games were played there in 2018.
Donegal voiced their concern about Dublin's apparent unfair advantage at the time and their motion requests that, from this summer, counties that reach the Super 8s 'shall not be permitted to nominate Croke Park as their home venue'.
Congress will deal with a number of other significant motions on the day and proposal 22 relates to players involved in the new U-20 football championship.
It comes from the Central Council/CCCC and proposes that a senior county player would be eligible to return to play in the U-20 championship once his county senior team has exited their championship.
As things stand, talented U-20 players are forced to choose between one grade or the other, an effort to curb burnout in younger players.
Motion 21 on the Congress clar deals with 'winner on the day' protocols and states that the competitions which will include these provisions are; All-Ireland football qualifiers, All-Ireland hurling preliminary quarter-finals, the Joe McDonagh Cup, National League knock-out games, provincial club championships, inter-county JFC and IHC games, inter-county U-20 FC and HC games (excluding All-Ireland finals) and minor knock-out championship games (excluding All-Ireland finals).
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