Mary’s fury at venue chaos

ST MARY’S Caherciveen chairman John Alan O’Sullivan has slammed Croke Park officials over the chaos surrounding the choice of venue for Sunday’s All-Ireland JFC club semi-final win over Manchester club St Peter’s.

The match was originally slated for Kilmallock but was moved to Monaleen in Limerick city on Sunday morning, with O’Sullivan describing the handling of the situation as “chaotic”.

“We notified the GAA on Saturday that Killmallock would not be playable in our opinion,” stated O’Sullivan, who lined out at wing-back on Sunday. “The previous Saturday we had a training session in Kilmallock and by 3.30pm, half the pitch was frozen and we knew that there was no way the game would go ahead if we had similar weather conditions. It wasn’t rocket science.