Tipp county board criticised for ‘making a bags’ of fixture list

Former Munster and Tipperary chairman Sean Fogarty has criticised the county board for "making a bags" of their fixture list after they conceded another provincial club fixture.

Tipperary will not have any representatives in this season’s Munster’s Club intermediate hurling championship as Sunday’s final between Moyne-Templetuohy and Thurles Sarsfields is scheduled for the same day as the Tipperary winners are fixed to play Waterford champions Cappoquin in a quarter-final. That county final may not yet go ahead as both Sarsfields, who face Loughmore-Castleiney in the senior decider which follows it in Semple Stadium, are managed by the same group.

However, the Munster fixture has already been scratched meaning Tipperary will have no representatives in a third Munster Club competition as they have already withdrawn from the senior and intermediate football championships because their own schedules have not yet finished. As Thurles Sarsfields are the club’s second team at intermediate level, Moyne-Templetuohy would have gone forward as the county’s representatives to face Cappoquin. Fogarty, a Moyne-Templetuohy clubman and whose son Diarmuid captains the side, said the club are greatly disappointed they won’t have the chance to compete for Munster and All-Ireland honours.