Costello: End provincial series

DUBLIN secretary John Costello has added his voice to those calling on the GAA to abandon the inter-county provincial championships.

And, in a far-reaching annual report to his county’s convention, the Dublin official has also questioned the validity of the nine-year-old backdoor system.

Costello believes that the slavish devotion to a traditional structure which tolerates 12 counties in one grouping and only five in another is both outmoded and unfair.