Plans to play Railway Cup before All-Ireland finals hit snag

Kevin Hynes, Connacht, in action against Conal Keaney, Leinster in the 2014 Railway Cup hurling final at Croke Park. Pic: Ray McManus / SPORTSFILE

Plans to revive the Railway Cup as All-Ireland senior football and hurling final curtain-raisers appear to have hit a snag.

As the Irish Examiner revealed last October, a committee charged with improving the All-Ireland final experience had considered the return of the interprovincial competitions, the first of which were played almost 100 years ago in 1927.