WITH MORE AND more GAA players and officials using social media to communicate with friends, fans and each other, the Association has taken the decision to issue a set of best-practice guidelines which all of its members should follow.

Kerry’s Paul Galvin, Footballer of the Year Bernard Brogan and Dublin team-mates Barry Cahill and Eamon Fennell, and Roscommon’s Donie Shine are among the GAA stars to open Twitter accounts in recent months.

Mindful of the pitfalls presented by sports stars’ use of social media, GAA Director of Communications Lisa Clancy told TV3 that they were in the process of compiling a list of dos and don’ts for its members to refer to.

“Any social media that’s there, people have to realise once they publish on it, it’s for public knowledge,” Clancy said.

We’ll be issuing overall social media guidelines for everybody, players, and officials, just to give them a guide to make them aware of the responsibilities they will have if they’re going on Twitter (for example).  But everybody’s personal Twitter is up to themselves.

The announcement prompted an interesting reaction on Twitter with many users tweeting their opinion of what the GAA’s guidelines might eventually look like.

Here are some of our favourites.