Fears ‘new province’ plan will hurt weak counties

LOWER-TIER hurling counties have hit out against GAA proposals to end their spring participation in the league in favour of regional club competitions.

proposal would see a new hurling ‘province’ involving seven neighbouring counties from three different provinces around the border region.

Sligo, Donegal, Louth, Fermanagh, Cavan, Monaghan and Leitrim are the seven counties named, with the possibility of Tyrone as an eighth. Three of those counties – Sligo, Donegal and Louth – are due to play in division 3B of the National League next year, and as far as Donegal manager Andrew Wallace is concerned, that’s how it should stay.