Horan confident of second tier championship's prospects
May 27, 2019
GAA President John Horan during 2019 Congress
John Horan is confident that plans for a second tier football championship will be accepted.
Speaking on RTÉ’s Radio 1's Morning Ireland programme following the All-Ireland SF qualifier first round draw, the GAA president acknowledged that there is an appetite for change and "now is the time to grab it".
He said: "When you look at the championships in the last few weeks, you see great local derbies and great matches and then you see some games a little bit too big a gap in the actual result.
"With the big gap in result, if you look at the draw we’ve made this morning, you see a large number of Division 3 and 4 teams are already in the qualifier section.
"Our hope will be at the next Central Council meeting in June to bring forward proposals to look at the introduction of a Tier 2 Championship for those teams in Division 3 and 4.
"There’s an appetite out there within the organisation to go ahead with a Tier 2 Championship and now is the time to grab that while the appetite is out there and I think we will possibly get it through at Central Council. If we do we’ll call a Special Congress in September/October to look at putting it forward to maybe having it introduced next year."
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