Quirke believes GAA jumped the gun with Tier 2 model

New Laois manager Mike Quirke believes it would have been more prudent of GAA top-brass to wait for the report of the fixtures review taskforce rather than “parachuting in” a second-tier football championship.

Quirke is firmly in favour of an additional championship layer to cater for Division 4 teams and those in the bottom half of Division 3, but does not agree with how the new Tier 2 model, brought forward by Central Council to Special Congress, was rushed into existence.