Special Congress Meeting: ‘The issue could be buried for 20 years and that would be tragic’

Former Hurling Development Committee (HDC) chairman Tommy Lanigan says the opportunity Special Congress delegates have today to change the senior championship structure might not come around for another 20 years.

Lanigan will be disappointed if the status quo is retained, while Wexford manager Davy Fitzgerald says hurling people are “crying out” for more championship games.

Today’s gathering has been called largely in reaction to concerns among the hurling fraternity to Gaelic football’s Super 8 next season, which will add eight more championship games and poses the potential problem of 19 football matches taking place in July in contrast to five in hurling.