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Published 15:20 28 Oct 2018 GMT
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Dublin, the All-Ireland champions, have a bye to the O'Byrne Cup semi-final but the rest of the counties are back out in five weeks' time.
After one season of shortening the inter-county season, Leinster have gone off on what is described as a "solo run" and made the season longer without having the approval of Congress.
"It just doesn't make sense that the Leinster Council would just fix that," Colm Parkinson said on The GAA Hour."So we're trying to condense the season and make it shorter. They've just made the season longer by three weeks."After last year, Paraic Duffy making it shorter by three weeks, they've made it longer in the other direction."By three weeks."
https://twitter.com/TheGAAHour/status/1056116071089033217"They've been allowed to do that without consulting anyone," Wooly continued."Paraic Duffy's changes of the championship had to go through Congress. You make sense of that to me, that the Leinster Council just could do a solo run on that and not consult with anyone."So now, for Leinster clubs, the season is no shorter than it was before Paraic Duffy had brought this brilliant new proposal of the Super 8s."Nothing should happen without them having a say or all stakeholders having a say."This is dictatorship."
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