Cunningham wants IRFU to clarify status of club game

GARRYOWEN RFC coach Paul Cunningham yesterday claimed that the IRFU have misinterpreted his views on the current debate amongst top clubs with the way the domestic game is being run.

In a week when representatives of three of the highest profile clubs in the country — Cork Constitution, Garryowen and Young Munster —expressed their worries about the future of the club game, Cunningham took issue with a number of points made by union spokesman John Redmond in the Irish Examiner.

“For starters, it is wrong to claim that I would prefer to go back to the era prior to professionalism. Neither did I claim, as suggested, that the ills of the clubs are due entirely to the professional game.