This year’s Kildare Hurling County Board Convention could be the last as GAA President Liam O’Neill wants counties to streamline all boards into one executive, according to the Liffey Champion.

GAA President Liam O’Neill

Kildare County Board Chairman John McMahon addressed the November meeting of the Hurling Board and informed them of O’Neill’s plan and the Hurling Board looks set to disband by the end of next year.

In the new system, the Hurling Board would become a sub-committee and would not hold its own convention or elect its own officers, instead the County Board Chairman would appoint them.

Hurling Board Secretary Aidan Sinnott

Hurling Board Secretary Aidan Sinnott says that there will be more meetings in early 2013 to discuss O’Neill’s plan but that “we would be against the plan as it could see members being picked by the executive rather than elected as it is now.”

The Convention takes place on Wednesday 28th November at 8.00pm in Ardclough GAA.