Ephie Fitzgerald: 'Where are we going with ladies sport if this is going to happen?'

Cork manager Ephie Fitzgerald was dismayed after the All-Ireland ladies football semi-final was moved for a second time

Cork's Doireann O'Sullivan and Orla Finn celebrate after the game. Picture: INPHO/Bryan Keane

“A bad week for ladies sport” and “a kick in the teeth” to the affected players, was Cork manager Ephie Fitzgerald’s summation of an All-Ireland ladies football semi-final that was subject to two venue changes, one of those coming on the morning of the game, and the throw-in time being brought forward by half an hour roughly two hours before the new start time.

“You'd have to say it is a bad week for ladies sport, wouldn't you really,” said Fitzgerald of the venue being moved from LIT Gaelic Grounds to Dublin’s Parnell Park last Monday because of a Limerick senior hurling training session, and then from Parnell Park to Croke Park at 11am yesterday morning after Parnell Park was deemed unplayable due to severe frost.