Justice in GAA still no more than a joke

AFTER Sunday’s NHL game between Galway and Limerick at the Gaelic Grounds, I asked both managers what they felt about Wexford’s objection to having had to play Cork when both Kilkenny and Waterford, the two strongest teams in that group, were granted walkovers because of the dispute between the Cork players and their county board.

This was what Richie Bennis, Limerick’s straight-shooting manager, had to say, when I asked if Cork should have been allowed to play in the league: “The rule is there, isn’t it? If you give two walkovers you forfeit your league, it’s as simple as that.”

So it was unfair to Wexford, Dublin and Antrim, the three teams who had to play Cork? “I think so, if Cork met Kilkenny and Waterford they’d have been taking points off each other, that was unfair to the others.”