Running the rule: Proposed changes to Gaelic football

Next Friday and Saturday, the GAA's Football Review Committee will showcase its proposed changes to the game of Gaelic football.

Four interprovincial matches at Croke Park will be televised to give the public a chance to see the impact these new rules would have to a sport that has taken a bit of a buffeting in recent years due to the perceived proliferation of negative tactics.

Chaired by legendary Dublin football manager Jim Gavin, the FRC will also hope the interprovincial games impress the delegates who will attend next month's Special Congress to vote on how many, if any, of these proposed rule changes come into effect in time for the 2025 Allianz Football League.

RTÉ Sport has spoken to Gavin and FRC member Éamonn Fitzmaurice in detail around how these rules - which are the result of an exhaustive consultation process with the GAA's membership and testing at so-called sandbox games - cover almost every aspect of the game.

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While they represent the biggest change to Gaelic football in modern times, the FRC is hopeful that Special Congress will vote to introduce the rules as a package, arguing that they are inter-connected and dependant on each other to effectively transform the sport.

"A lot of the rules enhancements are married to each other, work together and compliment each other," says Fitzmaurice.

As well as "seven core enhancements", there are proposed changes to the punishment of tactical fouling, dissent, aggressive fouling, as well as how the game is