Paudie Murray ‘over the moon’ at camogie regrading u-turn

Cork camogie players affected by the regrading controversy will have their applications to line out at intermediate level reconsidered by the Camogie Association after a dramatic u-turn by top-brass on Thursday night.

Nine Cork players — Sarah Fahy, Niamh Ní Chaoimh, Amy Lee, Katelyn Hickey, Leah Weste, Sarah Buckley, Finola Neville, Lauren Callinan, and Rebecca Walsh — who won All-Ireland senior medals last September, but did not feature from the bench in the 2015 championship, were informed last month that their request to regrade to intermediate had been rejected on the grounds that they typed their name on the relevant application form instead of signing with a pen.

An arbitration hearing, chaired by Dr Jack Anderson, at the Horse and Jockey Hotel on Thursday was attended by Cork players Sarah Buckley, Niamh Ní Chaoimh and Finola Neville, as well as leading members of the Cork County Board and Camogie Association.