Eir Sport and RTÉ provided live TV coverage of the league on Saturday nights.
Although one of the key aims of the experiment was to reduce the number of handpasses in Gaelic football, they voted 25-23 to not continue with the rule that restricted the number of consecutive handpasses to three (which was previously trialled in the 1989 National Football League and quickly abandoned[6]).
This decision followed an almost universal campaign by GAA county team managers in the media against its permanent introduction[7] The Gaelic Players Association (GPA) were also strongly against the three handpass rule.
[8] Experimental rules 2 to 5 (see above) were trialled in the 2019 National Football League, beginning on 26 January 2019 and ending on 31 March 2019.
[11] Three rules were passed and were introduced beginning in 2020 – The 2019 National Football League consists of four divisions of eight teams.