Colm Begley is confident that a second tier football championship will receive the green light.

Sixty per cent of GPA members favour the introduction of two-tier championship and the long-serving Laois star, who serves on the GPA executive, believes it will gain the necessary support to succeed.

"We've done a survey on it, we've asked players' opinions on it. There's definitely more positivity towards looking at it and I just don't think we're there yet in terms of how it's going to be formatted," Begley told the Irish Daily Star before he departed for Philadelphia with the PwC GAA/GPA All-Star tour yesterday.

"We're still trying to change it, I know the GAA are looking at different proposals. In fairness to them, they've realised that it's not something we can fast-track through. I would be in favour of it, I think down the line that's the way it's going.

"It's all about trying to get the same respect for whatever competition it is as what we get for the main one. I think that's the concern among players."

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