Opponents of Nash motion playing politics, blasts Cusack

Dónal Óg Cusack has hit out at opponents of the Anthony Nash motion, including the Cork County Board, for what he has described as “small-town politics”.

The former Cork goalkeeper, a member of the playing rules committee which put forward the proposal, said safety is the primary concern at the heart of calling for penalties and 20 metre frees to be taken from the 20m line.

A different form of the motion has to go to next year’s Congress after the original recommendation was taken off the Clár as Central Council’s belief was it would fail. The wording of it meant the rule change would affect all frees and sidelines.