Rivals await fate on tiered championship

Clare, Cork, and Tipperary senior footballers will have to wait to find out if they have more than one way of avoiding a second-tier football championship, should it come in next season.

Ahead of the proposal being debated at Special Congress in Páirc Uí Chaoimh next month, it has yet to be decided whether the two teams who gain promotion from Division 3 next year will earn entry to the qualifiers at the expense of those two counties relegated from Division 2 or the status quo will be adopted.