Two teams were to sit out rescheduled league games, says GPA

GPA chairman Seamus Hickey has confirmed that two inter-county squads were prepared not to play their rescheduled league games on Monday before unplayable pitches forced the fixtures to be postponed for a second time.

Hickey would not reveal the sides but reiterated the GPA’s statement on Sunday that the official inter-county players’ body had given them their full support to take such action due to a lack of consultation about the 24-hour turnaround from when the weather-affected games were originally scheduled to take place.

“It wasn’t so much strike action as being unable to fulfil fixtures,” he said.