FRC plan ‘fairer’ provincial system

GAA president Liam O’Neill has challenged the Association to back the Football Review Committee’s (FRC) Championship proposal or produce a better alternative.

In the second and final part of their report released yesterday, the Eugene McGee-led group called for the four provincial championships to start with eight counties in each competition.

Rather than redrawing provincial boundaries, they suggest the three preliminary round losers in Leinster and one in Ulster enter the Munster and Connacht championships so that there are four quarter-finals comprising eight teams in each province.