Uachtarán Chumann Lúthchleas Gael 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.
By John Harrington
Neither of the two motions that proposed restructuring the All-Ireland SFC were successful at GAA Special Congress today.
Motion 18, the eight-team provincial championship motion, was heavily defeated with 90% of delegates voting against it.
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.
The Motion was debated passionately for over an hour by delegates both in favour and against the motion, but in the end was defeated.
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.
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.
The passing of Motion 3 establishes in rule an Audit and Risk Committee as a sub-committee of the County Committee.
The passing of Motion 11 extended the definition of the county committee to include the newly created Safety and Facilities Officer.
You can read a full recap of how all the motions at Special Congress 2021 were debated and voted on HERE.