Offaly’s facilities frustrate McNamee

Offaly’s Niall McNamee has spoken of his embarrassment at seeing Tyrone’s state-of-the-art centre of excellence in Garvaghey and claimed more could be done by his own county board to facilitate their county teams.

McNamee was up North earlier this week delivering a talk and was taken aback by the facilities. Offaly’s county sides, by comparison, have had to travel to a number of venues during the winter — some outside the county — to find suitable facilities.

“If you look at the likes of Cork, the likes of Dublin, there’s no issue with these lads,” he said. “They’re getting everything laid on a plate for them... if I was child growing in Tyrone now, and I went and saw that that’s where their senior team is training, you’d put everything in your life to get there, to make that senior team to train there.