GPA and GAA bid to end Erne impasse

THE GPA and GAA have commenced a process aimed at ending the Fermanagh senior football stand-off.

A number of the county panel walked off the squad in protest against under-fire manager John O’Neill, leading the county board to call an emergency meeting last night.

The row is the first conflict to have emerged since the GPA and the GAA signed their historic official five-year agreement, a deal which included provision for the establishment of a mechanism to deal with player/county disputes.