Proposal to replace All-Ireland Intermediate Championship with U25 competition

The All-Ireland Intermediate Hurling Championship could be replaced by an inter-county competition limited to players aged 25 and under.

At last night’s Cork County Board meeting at Nemo Rangers, Munster Council delegate Marc Sheehan relayed details of the most recent meeting of the provincial council, which had featured strong support for a change to the current format.

With only Cork and Waterford in favour of a retention of the intermediate, a proposal by Limerick for the establishment of an U23 championship “gained a considerable amount of traction”, as Sheehan put it.