Limerick chief rejects Foley’s claims

LIMERICK secretary Mike O’Riordan has slammed claims made yesterday by former senior hurling captain Mark Foley as the war of words between Justin McCarthy’s management team and last year’s squad continues.

Foley said that the County Board were placing huge pressure on hurlers to return to the fold insisting that an unemployed player was offered: “the carrot of a job on the provision he came back to Justin. He rang a selector a week later to tell him he wasn’t going back and was told they had got a job for him but he wouldn’t be getting it.”

However O’Riordan challenged those assertions. “I would be talking to a lot of people in business and education from doing a lot of the donkey-work in relation to getting fellas into employment or into courses. I’m doing that constantly, but I didn’t speak to any player to tell him that a job was no longer there for him.”