Laois football managers in major row

IT emerged last night that a major row has erupted in Laois after the county U-21 manager Sean Dempsey rang three of his players on Saturday night.

He told them they would be dropped from his panel if they played for Mick O’Dwyer’s senior side against Kerry yesterday.

Donie Brennan, Colm Kelly (St Joseph’s) and Colm Kelly (Stradbally) were on the team bus on the way to Kerry when they received the calls from Dempsey and it seems that his selector John Mulligan has followed through on a threat to resign after the two Kellys ended up playing in Fitzgerald Stadium.