Victory comes at a price for Treaty

THERE was no cheering in Claughaun GAA hall on Tuesday evening as the result of the ballot was read out. There was not a single whoop nor holler as the final tally was announced, an emphatic 83/47 win for the county board and for Justin McCarthy and his management team.

Not alone did the rebel motion, which had been proposed by five senior hurling clubs (Adare, Ahane, Croom, Garryspillane and Patrickswell) fail to gain the necessary two-thirds majority, it was actually an increase in support for McCarthy from a motion passed last December that the rebel clubs were trying to have rescinded, when the Corkman was approved on a vote of 70/54.

A resounding result in favour of the board, then, who had offered consistent backing to the management team, a slap in the face for the rebel clubs and more particularly, for the 24 players currently at odds with the senior management.