There will be no change to the format of the national hurling league next year.

This means that Cork, Limerick Wexford and Offaly - as well as Antrim and Laois - will all definitely play in Division 1B next spring.

Speaking to The Irish Examiner, GAA communications manager Alan Milton confirmed that the current format will remain in place for at least another season.

"We haven't heard anything yet from any county, but if anyone wants to propose changing the current format they can bring it to Central Council, that's the forum for any such discussions.

"Because it's not a rule change it doesn't have to go before Congress. There's no urgency though, the current structure will be in place for 2014 and that will not change. The earliest that anything can happen is 2015, and that's if the appetite is there among the counties.

"Central Council has only recently come to the end of a lengthy and very thorough debate on this. I don't know if there was ever before such deliberation in the GAA on a competition and its structure, certainly not in recent times." Tweet

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