{"id":166348,"date":"2025-11-29T17:40:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T17:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/166348\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T17:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T17:40:10","slug":"motion-agreed-to-drop-all-ireland-hurling-preliminary-quarter-finals-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/166348\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion agreed to drop All-Ireland hurling preliminary quarter-finals \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The report of the Amateur Status Review Committee (ASRC) was approved by Saturday\u2019s Central Council and the two motions it proposed were endorsed for discussion at February\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/gaa\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/gaa\">GAA<\/a> annual congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They provide for a certification framework, similar to Uefa\u2019s licensing system, for intercounty teams, and a redrafting of Rule 1.8, which governs amateur status in the Official Guide and which legal advice has held in need of updating for the past eight years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In the ASRC report, it was argued that before amateur status can be properly enforced, it needs definition and a regulatory framework, which is provided in the motion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-it-article-body__interstitial-link\">[\u00a0<a aria-label=\"Open related story\" class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/sport\/gaelic-games\/2025\/11\/28\/amateur-status-review-committee-to-present-findings-to-gaa-central-council-on-saturday\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amateur Status Review Committee to present findings to GAA Central Council on SaturdayOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Another proposal accepted was for the abolition of the preliminary All-Ireland quarter-finals, which grant access to the MacCarthy Cup for the Tier 2 McDonagh Cup finalists. These matches have generally resulted in turkey shoots and their termination will be sought at congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">There was also support for a motion to incorporate the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/football-review-committee-frc\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/football-review-committee-frc\">FRC<\/a> rules on dissent into hurling after they had been seen to work so well in football \u2013 with a 30-metre penalty for any disputed frees. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Next year\u2019s master fixtures list was approved and it is expected that the 2026 National League schedules will be published next Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The report of the Amateur Status Review Committee (ASRC) was approved by Saturday\u2019s Central Council and the two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4183,92418,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-166348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-gaa","tag-hurling-championship","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}