Clare, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford in strike threat

The Munster SFC seeding row took another dramatic twist last night as Clare, Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford threatened to pull out of the 2015 competition.

The four counties are also planning to boycott next season’s McGrath Cup and they will also ask their players to make themselves unavailable for the M Donnelly interprovincial competition.

However, the aggrieved quartet concede that next year’s Munster championship will go ahead as planned — with heavyweights Cork and Kerry kept apart until the final, presuming both counties win their respective semi-finals.