A proposal to bring forward the dates of the All-Ireland hurling and football finals will be discussed by Central Council tomorrow.

Playing the finals in August would free up more time for the club championships to be condensed into the same calendar year.

However, the GAA's head of games administration and sub-committee member Fergal McGill doesn't expect a decision to be made on the proposal until the New Year.

"At the last Central Council meeting a sub-committee was put together to look at the practicalities of condensing the club championships into a calendar year and charged with coming up with some kind of formula that would enable it to happen," McGill explained to the Irish Examiner.

"We (the sub-committee) will meet again (tonight) and we would hope to have something in front of Central Council on Saturday. There has been discussion on bringing forward the All-Ireland senior and minor finals, but we haven't decided on our final proposal."

The Leitrim native continued: "Central Council, I don't imagine, will make a decision on Saturday. The delegates will bring what was discussed back to the various counties to get their views on it.

"In all likelihood a decision on this will be made at the January Central Council meeting. If it does get the green light it won't come into effect until 2016 and it mightn't necessarily have to go to Congress next year."

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