Fitzgerald: time to move on in dual-player row

COUNTY BOARD chairman Pat Fitzgerald last night drew a line under the dual-player controversy that has Limerick GAA in the headlines again for all the wrong reasons.

Addressing the statements issued at the weekend by football manager Liam Kearns and the six dual players involved, all of whom were critical of the county board officers for having failed to implement the dual-player policy, Fitzgerald accepted that there were indeed grounds for criticism but was adamant they didn’t have any choice.

“The tone and the wording of the statements was disappointing, but I suppose the county board is always going to be an easy scapegoat. It’s a fact that Limerick had a dual-player policy, and all applicants for the senior hurling manager’s job were told that would have to be adhered to; all the applicants, each and every one of them, said they would have a difficulty with it, but they would examine how they could deal with it.