Tyrone All-Ireland winner Conor Meyler said his concern over the planned merger of the GAA, Camogie ******* ociation and Ladies Gaelic Football ******* ociation [LGFA] is that the issue "is going to be thrown to the wayside again".
In February 2024, the three bodies announced plans to merge into one organisation by 2027.
However, in recent days, chairperson of the Steering Group Dr Mary McAleese stepped down, while a recent letter sent by the GAA's Integration Committee said it could no longer commit to that timeline.
"I don't doubt her [McAleese's] ability and leadership in any stretch," Meyler told BBC Sport NI's Mark Sidebottom.
"I just don't think she surrounded herself with the right board composition to actually get it done or she didn't have the power in the position to actually get things done within the three ******* ociations that she wanted and that's probably really disappointing because I know she was wholeheartedly going into this trying to make it happen.

#actually #tyrone

Croke Park's storied history contains some of Irish sport's most seminal moments.
Primarily a stadium for Gaelic games, there have been occasions when other sports graced the hallowed turf and on 19 July 1972, punches replaced points as Muhammad Ali took on Al 'Blue' Lewis.
When Katie Taylor makes her final career ringwalk on Saturday with the undisputed light-welterweight crown on offer against Flora Pili, 54 years will have passed since 'The Greatest' starred at the since redeveloped venue.
While Ali was the main attraction in 1972, it was Belfast's Paddy Maguire who boxed last on that balmy Wednesday evening, coming through on points against France's Guy Caudron.
"It's hard to believe it has taken so long for boxing to return to Croke Park," Maguire told BBC Sport NI.

#croke

While Adam McCann-Gibbs feels his journey from Gaelic footballer to college athlete has been like something from a film, the County Down teenager still acknowledges it is surreal to have one of the greatest American football coaches of all time play a leading role in his story.
Bill Belichick, who won six Super Bowls as head coach of the New England Patriots and two as an ******* istant with the New York Giants, swapped the NFL for the college game before last season and this weekend brings his North Carolina Tar Heels to Dublin for their season opener against Texas Christian University.
McCann-Gibbs, the team's punter who will be making his debut at this level should he feature at the Aviva Stadium, only took up the sport in recent years and is still learning its nuances. Few, of course, are more detail-orientated than Belichick with the former Down minor keen to soak up whatever he can from the 74-year-old.
"You're blown away whenever he goes up in a team meeting. Everyone shuts up really quickly and you're able to feed off his knowledge of the game," said McCann-Gibbs.
"It's just incredible. I might not understand everything yet but I'm learning from the guy that's at the top of his game."

#mccann #gibbs

Former Donegal All-Ireland winner James McHugh has died following a car crash in County Cavan.
McHugh, who was in his 60s, played inter-county football for Donegal from 1990 until 1998, also winning two Ulster Championships with the side.
An All-Star in the year his county lifted Sam Maguire for the first time, he scored a point from play in the 0-18 to 0-14 final victory over Dublin at Croke Park.
He was killed following a collision between a car and a van on the N3 at Drummallaght, between Virginia and Cavan town on Monday afternoon. A woman in her 60s, who was a passenger in the car, was seriously injured and was airlifted to hospital.
His Gaelic Athletic ***** ociation (GAA) club said it was devastated by the news.

#mchugh

For a few hours on Sunday, social media lit up with rumours and speculation that Seamus Coleman had found himself a new club.
Not on the football pitch but with his local Gaelic football side, Killybegs.
The 37-year-old left Everton at the end of the last season, bringing a 17-year tenure with the Premier League club to a close.
Republic of Ireland captain Coleman has been without a club since, despite featuring in June's international friendlies, but it was rumoured he would make a sensational return to Gaelic football.
The Donegal Senior Football Championship started on Saturday, and Killybegs travelled to Four Masters in their opener on Sunday afternoon.

#gaelic

An Irishman and a Frenchman are sitting in an Irish pub in Lille on a wet Saturday afternoon.
It's not the start of a joke, but it's a story of connection, community and discovering a new sport.
It is well known that Gaelic games have expanded far beyond its Irish roots with teams as far as London, the USA, Africa and Australia.
But it is in mainland Europe where it is really starting to grow.
Originally from Dublin, Turnbull has been involved with GAA as long as he can remember.

BBC Alba is to screen nightly live coverage and highlights throughout the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.
The Gaelic broadcaster will be the only place on the BBC where viewers can watch events after TNT Sports secured the rights to be the Games' live UK broadcast partner.
The subscription channel outbid the BBC, which had been the main partner and provided free-to-air coverage since 1954 for 18 Games in a row.
BBC Alba said details on its broadcast times and programming would be announced closer to the start of Glasgow 2026. The channel's Gaelic-language coverage will also be available on BBC iPlayer.
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Friday’s announcement came as no surprise to anyone, but it was still a thrill to learn that the long-held dream of Ireland’s Katie Taylor would be fulfilled to close out her boxing career at home in Dublin on September 5.
Taylor had long expressed her goal of concluding her career as Ireland’s greatest athlete by defending her ***** les at Croke Park, a historic venue seating 80,000 people and home to the Gaelic Athletic ***** ociation. It will be the first boxing event at Croke Park since Muhammad Ali fought Alvin Lewis of Detroit in 1972.
Taylor’s opponent is her newly minted mandatory challenger for the vacant WBC World Super Lightweight, Flora Pili of France (12-0, 2 KOs). Although many women threw their names into the hat as Taylor’s final opponent, including Stephanie Han, Holly Holm, and Caroline Dubois, this was never meant to be a trial by fire.
It is designed to provide Taylor with a credible opponent, sharp enough to help promote the fight and share the ring, while tipping the scales as much as possible to ensure Taylor earns herself the fairy-tale ending to a storybook career.
The 2012 London Olympics gold medalist and two-division champion Taylor of Bray, Ireland (25-1, 6 KOs) began a four-day promotional tour with Friday’s news conference, then moving on to her hometown of Bray, County Wicklow, and on to Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, and Belfast in Northern Ireland.

Katie Taylor said fulfilling her long-held dream of fighting at Croke Park will be the "perfect way" to end her decorated career after it was confirmed she will face Flora Pili at the Dublin venue on 5 September.
Taylor will bid to become a three-time undisputed champion against unbeaten French fighter Pili in what will be the first boxing event at the iconic Gaelic Games venue since Muhammad Ali's victory over Al 'Blue' Lewis in July 1972.
Taylor will defend her WBO, WBA, IBF and Ring Magazine ***** les and attempt to add the vacant WBC belt against mandatory challenge Pili, who boasts a 12-0 record.
The 39-year-old Irishwoman has not boxed since completing a clean sweep of the trilogy against Amanda Serrano in New York's Madison Square Garden last July, which saw her retain her undisputed light-welterweight ***** le.
"This seems like the perfect way to end it (my career) – by becoming undisputed champion again in our national stadium which has such a special place in Irish hearts," said Taylor.