Bennis accuses Limerick chiefs of ‘opting out’

LIMERICK legend Richie Bennis has launched a stinging attack on county board chiefs on Shannonside.

Bennis, a member of the last Limerick team to win an All-Ireland SHC title in 1973, criticised the process to appoint a hurling boss and also slammed the executive for allowing the stand-off between former manager Justin McCarthy and last year’s panel to drag on.

Bennis, who has a two-year spell in charge of Limerick and lead them to the 2007 decider, argues that the board has shed its responsibilities by appointing a three-man committee of Paudie Fitzmaurice, Damien Quigley and Jim Woulfe to come up with someone to take over the reins next year.