O’Dwyer’s clear-the-air meeting with Portlaoise club

MICK O’DWYER has met with representatives of the Portlaoise club to resolve a number of key issues central to the recent turmoil over players’ availability for Laois football training.

O’Dwyer had actually resigned his position as Laois manager earlier this week, claiming it was because of the poor turnout of players for his first two training sessions last Thursday and Saturday.

Eight of O’Dwyer’s players are drawn from the county champions and that alone was a huge reduction of the 32 faces he expected to show up for the sessions late last week.