Ard Chomhairle decide goal will remain at three points and no McKenna Cup for 2025

With a few tweaks, Ard Chomhairle voted unanimously to forward the proposed Gaelic football rule changes recommended by the Football Review Committee to a Special  Congress at Croke Park on November 30.

Also, the proposal to rescind the motion to postpone the January pre-season competitions for 2025 was defeated.

Meetings of Coiste Bainistíochta and Ard Chomhairle took place this weekend and the proposed changes will see:

• The value of a goal to be three points 

• The value of a point scored from a ‘45’ metre kick to be worth one  point 

• The indication of a two-point score for a point scored from play or a  free kicked, on or outside, a 40 metre arc to be the waving of an  orange flag by umpires on the signal from the referee of raising two  hands in the air. 

• To deliberately hold up an opposing player to be a black card  offence and amended to read: To prevent or restrict, or to attempt  to prevent or restrict, an opponent from moving or from playing the  ball, by holding up an opponent 

• The penalty for a goalkeeper receiving a pass outside of the agreed  rules will be from the position the goalkeeper received the pass: A  free kick from the position the goalkeeper receives the pass, or if the  goalkeeper is inside the 13m line (whether the player making the pass is  inside the small rectangle or not) when in receipt of the pass, the free will  be from the 13m line opposite where the foul occurred.  

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