Tyrone manager Mickey Harte has called on the GAA to sever all links with the Australian Football League, after Armagh's rising star Kevin Dyas became the latest young Gaelic footballer to go on trial with a AFL club.
Dyas has travelled down under to begin a month-long trial with Collingwood.
Harte, a fervent critic of the International Rules series, says the remaining links between the two associations should be brought to an end in order to stem the flow of GAA talent to Australia.
'It's time for the GAA to focus on our own game. Get the Railway Cup back in that slot were that hybrid game, which I have no time for, used to happen,' said the Red Hand boss.
'We in the GAA should be doing nothing to encourage that. We should be encouraging people that Gaelic games is the one to play and if people do decide, of their own volition, to go elsewhere, that's fine.
'But we should have no connection with the AFL and then if people go of their own accord, so be it.'
Harte also suggested that the high profile given to the International Rules series has created an awareness of Aussie Rules football among young people in Ireland that would not otherwise have been so high.
'There was in no way such an awareness of this AFL and anyone belonging to it or pertaining to it until the Compromise Rules was reinstigated,' he said.
