Noel Walsh blasts ‘unjust’ club fine over Jamie Carragher soccer school

Former Munster Council chairman Noel Walsh has castigated Croke Park hierarchy over their “unjust” treatment of Longford GAA club Dromard.

The Longford club has been slapped with a €2,000 fine for allowing the Jamie Carragher soccer school take place on their grounds last August. Dromard are the first club in the history of the GAA to be penalised for breaching Rule 5.1.

Walsh, who will, for a second successive year, table a motion at Congress calling for county grounds to be opened up to other sports, said the GAA are in danger of killing off rural clubs if they continue to pick so unfairly on the association’s “small fish”.