The 2020 Munster senior football championship draw, which pits Cork against Kerry in a semi-final, could militate against the proposed second-tier championship at today’s Special Congress in Páírc Uí Chaoimh.

Former Louth manager Eamonn McEneaney has called on counties to add “realism” to the All-Ireland SFC and back the Tier 2 proposal.

219 days before it begins, the 2020 Munster senior football championship draw, along with Connacht’s, was to take place on RTÉ Radio this morning.

Tomorrow, Central Council will choose which form of the old Tommy Murphy Cup they back as a motion to Special Congress later this year on a revamped football championship.

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They’ve found themselves sat at the same table each summer for the past 16 years and yet if you take out their escapades during June and July of 2011, they’ve never managed to raise their voice loud enough for anyone to notice them.

London manager Ciarán Deely says the GAA “have got it the wrong way around” by introducing the Super 8s ahead of securing more games for smaller counties.

Leitrim star Emlyn Mulligan has stressed the need for a tiered All-Ireland football championship to make the game more appealing to players from developing counties.

The Gaelic Players Association has revealed that its players will vote to reject Paraic Duffy’s ‘Super 8’ proposal at Congress, after a poll of members found 70% opposed the proposals, which would see the All-Ireland football quarter-finals replaced by a round robin format from next year.

They’re an obstinate bunch, Tipperary football folk. Small in number but big in pretty much everything else — it took three pleas from the PA announcer in Croke Park to convince them to leave the stadium long after the players had retired to their dressing room.

Ray Cosgrove is a busy man, though not as busy as he should be.

Finally, someone else said it.

Former GAA president Seán Kelly maintains that a 16-county intermediate All-Ireland championship is the way forward for inter-county Gaelic football.

The GAA president wants it. Aogán Ó Fearghail has never made his secret of his wish to see a “B” football championship, comprising the eight Division 4 counties as was last seen in 2008, returned to the All-Ireland calendar.

The shortlist of three proposals to change the structure of the All-Ireland senior football championship will be put to counties in the coming weeks.

The introduction of a second tier All-Ireland senior football championship following the provincial competitions is on the cards if the proposals up for debate are anything to go by.

REFLECTIONS on the 2015 championships have been under-whelming to say the least. I mightn’t altogether agree with that downbeat assessment, but one has to take the majority view on board and debate what needs to change to improve matters.

Former Munster Council chairman Sean Fogarty has called for the abolition of the provincial football championships and a significant reduction in the power wielded by provincial councils.

Seamus McCarthy and Tommy Toomey have given their lives to Tipperary football. Days like thisfulfil dreams, even if some within the county are uneasy about the growing dual mandate.

GAA pundit Joe Brolly has added to the clamour for a second tier football championship, and wants it to be named after an “inspirational” figure like Paidi Ó Sé.

It was a gentleman by the name of HL Mencken, a 20th century American journalist, satirist and commentator known as ‘The Sage of Baltimore’, who once declared that he hated all sports “as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense”.

A few years ago, I had the privilege of proposing on these pages how I believed the All-Ireland Football Championships should be restructured to make it more appealing, more relevant and, above all, more rewarding for the most important component — the players and management.

The GAA is in line to vote next year on adding a “B” competition to the All-Ireland senior football championship, president Aogán Ó Fearghail has indicated.

Former GAA president Seán Kelly says the Association must prioritise the state of the All-Ireland senior football championship and scrap their plans for a calendar year.

It’s the start of summer again, and it feels distinctly like we’ve all been here before, at this very point, it’s more like déjà vu than just another year.

Any “B” championship must carry the incentive of its decider being staged as the curtain-raiser to the All-Ireland final, says former Leinster chairman Martin Skelly.

Daniel St Ledger turned to referee Paddy Neilan late on Saturday evening and enquired how much was left on the watch. “12 minutes”, replied the Roscommon official. “It felt like an eternity,” the Carlow football captain admitted yesterday.

Waterford football boss Tom McGlinchey says there’s merit in Dara Ó Cinnéide’s proposal for a two-tier inter-county football championship but warns the structure and marketing of such a competition would be crucial.

Dara Ó Cinnéide says there is sufficient evidence to support a revitalised Tommy Murphy Cup-style competition.

GAA president Liam O’Neill has ruled out the introduction of a second-tier football championship to cater for the growing number of counties whose involvement in the race for Sam Maguire is no longer justifiable.

John Kiely has a pretty straightforward view of the football championship and exactly who should play in it — "any fit, healthy young fella who wants to play for his county against the best".

Earlier this week, my boss sent me a text message enquiring about the subject matter of today’s column.

Managerial legend and former Tommy Murphy Cup winning boss Mick O’Dwyer has called for the competition to be revived for weaker teams.

Limerick senior manager John Brudair is looking forward to the Gaelic Grounds this afternoon and their All-Ireland SFC qualifier opening round against London, but there are two other options the first-year bainisteoir would prefer.

It’s been a bad week for defending champions and Jim Gavin has taken note.

GAA president Liam O’Neill insists the chances of powerful hurling freetakers scoring a goal from a placed ball outside the 20-metre line are as good as converting one within it.

Carlow football selector Turlough O’Brien has dismissed calls for a two-tier All-Ireland football championship.

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Ballinacourty’s gentle giant this week decided to call time on his 14-year Waterford career