GAA President Aogán O Fearghail has repeated his call for the abolition of championship replays.

The Cavan man says he has no idea why the Ulster SFC semi-final replay between the Breffni County and Tyrone was slated for this weekend instead of last and insists that there shouldn't be replays in the championship:

"The replay was fixed for two weeks afterwards and I don't know why," the Drumgoon clubman told The Irish Independent. "I just don't know why. I'm not happy with those things happening because we set national fixtures, then they go to the provinces and the provinces should look at the national fixtures and slot everything in.

"Personally, I was hoping at Congress that we would not have replays. I still believe that would be better. I know my club at home lost two weeks because of that. We were due to play last weekend, we now won't be playing for three weeks.

"My two sons play with the club so I see it. It has an enormous knock-on effect. I think that in the championship, certainly in the earlier rounds, we shouldn't have replays. However, we have had a replay and the normal expectation is that it would take place the following weekend. Clearly it didn't."

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