Club decries ‘double standards’ over fundraiser

The organiser of a fundraising national free-taking competition has strongly criticised Croke Park for forcing the event to be moved to a grounds outside the control of the GAA.

Dundalk Young Irelands’ Adrian O’Donoghue claims the GAA initially had no issue with the Cic SaorChampionship before recentlydecreeing it is a breach of theorganisation’s amateur status.

With a prize fund originally estimated to be €30,000 and the winner receiving €10,000, thecompetition had drawn the attention of several top inter-county players and was set to be staged on the club’s grounds on Saturday week.