Limerick are leaning in favour of the Croke Park motion to transform the provincial championships from knockout to round-robin, though it was decided at Tuesday’s county board meeting to allow their Special Congress delegation a free vote.

It’s increasingly likely that Wexford will miss out on home advantage against All-Ireland champions Dublin in next month’s Leinster SFC quarter-final should they beat Carlow later this month.

On the face of it, Davy Fitzgerald and Seamus McEnaney couldn’t be more different. Football matters as little to Fitzgerald as hurling would to McEnaney. Wexford managers have been known to verbally spar in the past, but last Tuesday evening this pair took tea in the county’s centre of excellence in Ferns and found they have plenty in common