Quarter-final opportunity for hurling’s minnows
It is also being proposed that the All-Ireland semi-finals will be played over one weekend — one Saturday, one Sunday — as opposed to now when they are played on consecutive Sundays. That schedule would replicate the plan for the last four in the All-Ireland senior football championship from next year.
It had been reported last week that the top team in a developing section, similar to the current Leinster qualifying group, would qualify for the Leinster championship round-robin series. That would have meant as many as eight games in an intense period.
