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Sat 04 Apr 2007Play-off takes uncertain twistGaelic Games:Tomorrow's National Hurling League Division One relegation play-off between Limerick and Offaly has been thrown into uncertainty with the decision of Central Council, on the opening day of the 2007 GAA annual congress in the Hotel Kilkenny in Kilkenny city, to revisit the structure of next year's first division.It had been intended that the losers of this match would be relegated to Division Two for 2008 but Offaly asked the meeting that Central Council consider expanding the proposed first division from nine to 10 teams.