Full coverage: GAA

There is a lot to look forward to in the new GAA season, new managers, new structures and more personalities.

Having been blighted by overruns, the fall-out from the redevelopment of Páirc Uí Chaoimh into a 45,000-capacity stadium is now increasingly litigious, with several legal actions taken. Just what is going on?

The decision of Sky to withdraw from negotiations with the GAA regarding a new broadcast deal in part revealed the limitations of the split season.

All around the world, sporting organisations are sending players out to play more and more matches except in one place, where they have cut the money-spinning season back to six months. Nobody else would surrender so much of the season. 

In the GAA, players are conditioned to wade into brawls safe in the knowledge that the disciplinary process is not the end of the matter but only the beginning.

The four provincial finals in Gaelic football this weekend will demonstrate the evolution of Gaelic football and how anarchy has given way to organised chaos.

There are no certainties in sport and the lack of marketing around the new inter-county season increases the chances of a revolution in the game.

Dublin are struggling for a collective purpose and the anchors that held Jim Gavin's side together no longer hold, but there is still one thing that could make them a force.

The stand off between the GAA and the GPA over expenses also exposes many of the governing myths about the GAA and shines a light on the most hallowed belief of all: amateurism

Navigating your way through GAA congress can be tricky for those outside the administrators' world but what happens there can have real meaning.