Limerick peace deal brokered

The Limerick intermediate team is still without a manager, but, in a compromise that was backed unanimously at a meeting of the county board in Claughaun GAA club last night, the dispute that had threatened to throw the county back into the chaos it had witnessed only three years ago was finally resolved.

A committee led by county board vice-chairman Pat Heffernan had nominated controversial former senior manager Tom Ryan to lead a five-man intermediate selection management committee but in a surprise move, this nomination had been rejected by the management committee.

After a sometimes stormy meeting last night that lasted just over an hour, however, a compromise was reached — in 2014 the Limerick intermediate hurlers will have the five selectors (Tom Ryan, Jimmy Carroll, Don Flynn, Pat Howard and Tony Roche) as suggested by Pat Heffernan’s committee, but all of those will have equal status, none will have the title of ‘manager’.