Hundreds of delegates from all around the world will descend on Donegal Town this weekend for the GAA’s Annual Congress.
A number of motions will be debated and voted on at the event which will take place in the Abbey Hotel on Friday and Saturday.
Donegal last hosted Congress in 1988 when it was staged at the Great Northern Hotel in Bundoran.
The county was awarded the 2025 annual Congress following November’s Special Council meeting in Dublin.
Congress can attract significant attention depending on the issues being voted upon.
Some of the delegates will not just be arriving from all around Ireland, but from County Boards in the UK, Continental Europe, North America and Asia.
An annual congress is where changes to the rule book, the Official Guide, may be undertaken; where the year is reviewed; and where a new president of the association formally takes office. It is a democratic meeting in which delegates from the county boards and provincial councils have speaking and voting rights.
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