Restore minor finals at Croke Park on day of All-Ireland senior deciders, Congress urged

Fermanagh club Tempo Maguires hope delegates at GAA Congress next week will support a motion to reinstate the minor finals as the curtain raisers to the All-Ireland senior hurling and football deciders. The minor finals were traditionally fixed as the opening games on All-Ireland final day, but that practice has faded since a vote at Congress in 2016 lowered the minor grade from under-18 to under-17. On foot of that change, a process of moving the finals out of Croke Park followed. The 2019 hurling and football minor finals were the last to have been played on the undercard of their respective senior deciders. The 2021 All-Ireland minor football final between Meath and Tyrone was played as...