U-21 selector Laffan blasts board in Wexford dual player row

THE Wexford hurling crisis deepened last night as the county’s Under-21 selector Gary Laffan, an All-Ireland SHC medallist in 1996, launched a scathing attack on his own county board over the use of dual players.

Laffan revealed how the U21 hurlers were promised the use of eight dual players for a challenge match against Offaly last Sunday — before they were later pulled from the squad.

The matter is complicated by the fact that the players in question, Liam Óg McGovern, Michael O’Regan, Matthew O’Hanlon, John Lacey, Barry O’Gorman, Alan Nolan, James Breen and Emmett Kent, are preparing for next Wednesday’s Cadbury’s Leinster U21 football final against Longford.