Division Three league restructured
January 18, 2018
Dowdallshill had a goal to spare over Wolfe Tones in Drogheda
Second-string teams will no longer be competing in Division Three of the Louth ACFL.
The Wee County's weakest junior teams were struggling to compete with the bigger club's reserve sides, resulting in some of them sliding down into Divisions Four and even Five.
The situation was clearly unsustainable, with Wolfe Tones, Dowdallshill, St Nicholas and Cuchulainn Gaels all losing their third-division status and appearing to be on the cusp of potential freefall.
However, at a County Board meeting in Darver on Monday night, delegates voted strongly in favour of returning to the old system whereby only first-string sides could compete in any of the top three divisions.
Thus, the aforementioned four clubs have all been returned to Division Three, while the second-string sides from Dundalk Gaels, St Brides and Naomh Mairtin return to the reserve league.
In another agreed tweak to the structure of Division Three, it will be divided into Division 3A and Division 3B from the 2019 season onwards.
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