By Cian O'Connell

GAA Ard Stiúrthóir Tom Ryan has confirmed that the new 'back pass' rule following kickouts will be used in the 2020 All Ireland Senior Football Championship.

The new rule ensures a player who receives a kick out cannot immediately pass it back to his goalkeeper.

Following Saturday's GAA Congress at Croke Park, Ryan stated how the rule will be implemented.

"The standard position is, it comes in a month after Congress and we are actually going to do that, with the exception of the National Football League finals," Ryan says.

“A club is entitled to come up with an idea, bring a motion, if people like it and it finds favour, let it go.

"The tricky little thing – and we all do it a bit – is that it's for every football match. It’s not just for inter-county matches.

“So we tossed it around for a few minutes downstairs at Central Council and pretty much everybody at the table had a perspective: ‘Our league has already started’ and ‘our league is starting in three weeks’ time and has an interregnum of two months and then gets going again.’

“The cleanest way to do it that we concluded was we’d just come in with it.”