Moroney named CEO after Fitzgerald’s shock exit
Chairman Sean Walsh informed officials and delegates attending the scheduled January meeting of the council in Limerick city that Mr Fitzgerald had relinquished his post on Wednesday afternoon.
Walsh said: “Pat Fitzgerald is on administrative leave effective from January 2nd 2013 until his contract expires on March 31st 2013. Thereafter he will not be looking to extend this contract with Comhairle na Mumhan.”
Last September provincial delegates agreed to extend the contract of Mr Fitzgerald by a further five years to 2018.
However the chairman revealed Mr Fitzgerald had written to him subsequently to decline that offer.
Delegates then approved a recommendation that Clare native Moroney will assume the position of acting chief executive from Monday until September 30 of this year.
Ironically Mr Fitzgerald was first appointed to the position in 2008, when he was one of 13 candidates who applied to succeed Mr Moroney, who was a former secretary of the council.
Fitzgerald is a former Limerick county board chairman and was also the county’s GAA development officer.
He has held numerous positions at club, county, provincial and national level including chairing the GAA’s Club Development and Planning Committee.
Fitzgerald had only spent a few months as Limerick’s delegate to the council before being appointed to the top role.
The Council’s Deputy CEO Enda McGuane stepped down from his post late last year and is now managing director of a company in Galway.
One of Mr Moroney’s first tasks will be the preparation of documents and reports for the Munster Council’s annual convention which is fixed for the Bunratty Hotel in his native county on Friday, February 8.
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