Offaly plea for league restructure

Offaly secretary Tommy Byrne has urged GAA top brass to revisit the structuring of the Allianz League.

This week, his Limerick counterpart Mike O’Riordan estimated that the Shannonsiders are losing up to €150,000 per annum by failing to secure a place in the six team top flight of Division 1A. The existing structure was introduced after the 2011 campaign was over, when Central Council delegates rejected the Croke Park management committee’s own proposal to retain an eight-team top division in favour of a recommendation from the Hurling Development Workgroup for a controversial six-team groups.

With Offaly plying their trade in Division 1B, Byrne is unhappy not just with that decision, but with the manner it was decided.