Gardaí probe online attacks on Clare secretary Pat Fitzgerald

Delegates to the Clare GAA Convention have given their unanimous support to long-standing secretary Pat Fitzgerald after it was revealed that the war between the top table of the county board and alleged online trolls is now the subject of a Garda investigation.

Joe Cooney, who was returned for a fifth year as board chairman, gave his full-backing to the intervention when speaking to the Irish Examiner, as did all delegates to last night’s convention staged in the Auburn Lodge Hotel, Ennis.