Kerry’s hurlers being treated as the GAA’s second-class citizens

The basic inequity of the promotion and relegation system applied to the new structure of the All-Ireland hurling championship is so obvious that it is impossible to ignore.

That the team that will finish bottom of the Leinster hurling championship should be treated differently than the team that finishes bottom of the Munster hurling championship is plainly wrong.

More than that, the idea that the winners of the second tier championship (the Joe McDonagh Cup) should be treated differently, dependent on their identity, is even more wrong — indeed, it is hard to know where to begin with that aspect of the story.