GAA votes to change senior hurling championship 

The provincial senior hurling championships will be played off as round-robin series from 2018 on a three-year period after it was passed by a small margin at Special Congress in Croke Park today, writes John Fogarty.

Of the 153 delegates, 62% of them backed the idea of two groups of five teams comprising the Munster and Leinster championships with each team playing four matches, two at home and two away. The counties finishing in the top two places in each provincial group play in their respective provincial final with the winners going through to the All-Ireland semi-finals.