Wexford wait to learn opponents as coin-toss furore drags on

Wexford are just five days out from a Liberty Insurance Senior Camogie quarter-final against an opponent still unknown, as the Dublin-Clare coin-toss controversy drags on.

Clare and Dublin drew when they met in Group 2 and finished level on points after the former’s defeat of Derry at the weekend. With scoring differences not taken into account under competition rules, a coin toss was the only means to solve the impasse.

However, Clare have appealed those predetermined procedures and, though Dublin have yet to lodge their appeal in full, they are expected to follow suit today, after which a decision should be forthcoming from the Camogie Association, either late today or tomorrow.

The Camogie Association yesterday revealed the fixture list for a quarter-final double-header at Semple Stadium next Sunday, with All-Ireland champions Cork facing Tipperary at 4pm and Wexford facing either Clare or Dublin at 2pm. Officials stated last week that both quarter-finals would proceed according to plan, and there was no deviation from that script yesterday.

Association president Joan O’Flynn has previously stated that procedures were followed to the letter when quizzed on the issue.

“We do a fixtures review every October,” said O’Flynn. “So, October 2014, there was a discussion about club and county dates — the usual — and there was a sounding taken whether we should avoid play-offs in the event of teams finishing level in group stages.

“The preference from the workshop was, yeah, so there was then a process to find a system for the eliminator. The system in place was reissued on October 31 for consultation and there was no written dissenters from any counties and certainly not from Dublin.”

The rules were accepted by the Ard Comhairle the following month.