Club boss leaps to defence of Brennan

DONIE BRENNAN’S club manager has launched an impassioned defence of the player who was dropped from the Laois senior panel by Sean Dempsey in controversial circumstances late last month.

Arles-Killeen’s Nicky McGrath, who has previously managed Kilmacud Crokes, wrote to Dempsey, county board officials and a local paper to ask why the attacker was not informed of his demotion in “a proper manner”.

According to McGrath, Brennan was given different reasons for being dropped. One was for a breach of discipline and another, which he apparently learned from other players, was he was not “the complete player”.