THE GAA HAVE released details on the 22 motions that will go before Special Congress on 30 September.

Several motions for the reform of the All-Ireland senior hurling championship are up for debate, with the CCCC and a number of counties putting forward proposed restructures to the competition.

Cork have suggested a format which would effectively mirror the Super 8s that are set to come into the football championship in 2018.

Motion 5 from Cork: The principal proposed change is to run the All-Ireland quarter-finals on a similar basis to the new All-Ireland Football quarter-finals. The All-Ireland quarter-finals to be organised on a ‘Round-Robin’ basis of two groups of four teams with each team in a group playing the other team once. The teams participating to be the provincial champions and runners-up of the Munster and Leinster championships and the four winning teams from the All-Ireland qualifier series.

The Central Council/CCCC motion shows one significant change from the proposals which were first mooted in June.

The original plan featured two five-team groups replacing the Munster and Leinster championships, with a Provincial Qualifier Group containing five lower-tiered sides with a pathway to the All-Ireland series.

The latter has now been scrapped in favour of a Tier 2 championship, with relegation and promotion between the Liam MacCarthy and Tier 2 introduced instead. It means just 10 sides will compete for the All-Ireland SHC title.

The top two sides from the group containing Westmeath, Antrim, Carlow, Kerry, Laois and Meath contest a Tier 2 final, with the winners replacing the bottom ranked side in the Leinster round-robin.

If Kerry – or another Munster side – win Tier 2, they’ll face the lowest ranked Munster side in a promotion/relegation play-off.

The full list of motions can be read on the GAA website.