Nine Cork players ineligible for 2016 season after typing names instead of signing with pen in applications

The Cork Camogie Board and Camogie Association are at war over the latter’s refusal to regrade nine All-Ireland senior-medal winners to intermediate for the year ahead, throwing into doubt the county’s participation in the Division 2 league and All-Ireland intermediate championship.

The nine players — Sarah Fahy, Niamh Ní Chaoimh, Amy Lee, Katelyn Hickey, Leah Weste, Sarah Buckley, Finola Neville, Lauren Callinan, and Rebecca Walsh — learned of their fate in a letter from the Camogie Association dated Monday, February 1. With Croke Park stating that the decision cannot be appealed, the Cork intermediates have been robbed of over half their starting team for the 2016 campaign.

Cork’s second team were due to open their Division 2 league account away to Antrim on Sunday, but have been forced to concede the game, as they would not be able to field a team.