Meyler furious as new league proposal threatens Carlow status

Carlow manager John Meyler last night launched a broadside on the new hurling league proposal, which would see the county and Westmeath demoted from Division 1B.

A Central Council vote on the format of next year’s competition on Saturday was postponed to consider a new structure blueprint put forward by Monaghan man Michael Burns, a member of the national fixtures planning committee. Instead of an eight-team Division 1A and six-team Division 1B including Carlow and Westmeath, Burns’ plan sees two conferences of six teams in Division 1 comprising Division 1A and 1B as they finished this year.

As Carlow were relegated to Division 2A with promoted Laois taking their place, the latter would be the 12th team in the new format.