Inter-county grants decision sparks fury

Several current and former inter-county players have taken to Twitter to express their disagreement with Sport Ireland’s decision to withhold last year’s Government grants.

SI is refusing to release the monies as the GPA has yet to agree to new anti-doping measures, which would see it next year provide SI with the home addresses of inter-county players for home drug tests.

Current Tipperary football captain Robbie Kiely commented: “No issue with what has been said in each (GPA and SI) statement however since both parties agreed terms on a 3 year deal in 2016 why is there a hold on the 2017 grants? As SI have said this is for 2019 so why not hold the 2019 grants if @GPA and Sports Ireland have not agreed on the issue”.