Dublin rubbish third team claims

DUBLIN have rubbished suggestions that they are to enter a third senior hurling team in competition next year.

The County Board outlined their annoyance over reports to this effect which circulated yesterday, saying in a statement that they would be seeking guarantees that it wasn’t an effort on behalf of the Hurling Development Committee to force them into doing so. Their reaction was outlined in a statement issued by Board CEO John Costello last evening, in which he said that the reports — that Dublin would enter three teams in the 2008 championship — were ‘incorrect’.

He said that this year’s Congress had decided Dublin would enter the Liam McCarthy Cup next year and that a ‘representative’ team from the North Dublin area would participate in the Nicky Rackard Cup.