significant controversy in the community [@Bernard:1993nj; @Banerjee:1994bk; @Banerjee:1995wz; @Lehnhart2004; @Semke2005] as to whether any significant results can be obtained in the flavour SU(3) case.

At leading order the octet and decuplet masses are determined by the tree-level mass parameters of the chiral Lagrangian. At next-to-leading order the chiral symmetry breaking counter terms $b_0,b_D, b_F$ and $d_0, d_D$ in (\[res-bds\]) turn relevant $$\begin{aligned}
&& M^{(2)}_{N}=  -2\,{m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{\pi}}\,(b_0+2\,b_F) - 4\,{m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{K}}\, (b_0+b_D-b_F)\,,
\nonumber\\
&& M^{(2)}_{\Sigma} - M^{(2)}_{\Lambda}={\textstyle{16\over 3}}\, b_D\, ({m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{K}}-{m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{\pi}})\,, \quad
 M^{(2)}_{\Xi} - M^{(2)}_{N}=- 8\, b_F \,({m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{K}}-{m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{\pi}})\,,
\nonumber\\
&& M^{(2)}_\Xi- M^{(2)}_\Sigma = - 4\,(b_D+b_F)\,({m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{K}}-{m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{\pi}})
\,,
\nonumber\\ \nonumber\\
&&  M^{(2)}_{\Delta}
=  - 2\,(d_0+d_D)\,{m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{\pi}}-4\, d_0\,{m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{K}}\,,
\nonumber\\
&& M^{(2)}_\Sigma-  M^{(2)}_\Delta
= - {\textstyle{4\over 3}}\,d_D \,({m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{K}}-{m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{\pi}}) \,, \quad 
 M^{(2)}_{\Xi}-  M^{(2)}_\Sigma
= -  {\textstyle{4\over 3}}\,d_D\,({m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{K}}-{m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{\pi}}) \,,
\nonumber \\
&& M^{(2)}_{\Omega}- M^{(2)}_\Xi
= -  {\textstyle{4\over 3}}\,d_D\,({m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{K}}-{m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{\pi}}) \,,
\label{res-Q2}\end{aligned}$$ where the meson masses are to be taken at leading order with e.g. ${m^{\!\!\!\!\!^o\;\,2}_{\pi}} = 2\,B_0\,m$. Based on (\[res-Q2\]) the parameters $b_D, b_F$ and $d_D$ may be adjusted to the mass differences of the physical baryon states: $$\begin{aligned}
&& b_D \simeq  0.07 \,{\rm GeV}^{-1} \,, \quad 
b_F \simeq - 0.21 \,{\rm GeV}^{-1} \,, \quad
 d_D \simeq - 0.49  \,{\rm GeV}^{-1} \,,
\label{parameters-Q2A} \end{aligned}$$ where the uncertainties as implied by the use of 