Originally posted by Menapian.:
From today`s Indo:

Wexford feel heat over Brennan jibe
By Colm Keys
Wednesday May 14 2008

Wexford County Board could face charges of bringing the GAA into disrepute over their recent press statement accusing president Nickey Brennan of "hypocrisy".

The GAA`s Management Committee has instructed Director General Paraic Duffy to write to Wexford asking why they shouldn`t face disrepute charges over the content of the statement issued after their case against the handling of Cork`s league participation ran aground at DRA level.

Management discussed the statement, which was issued to the media but not sent to Croke Park, at the weekend and have decided to seek answers from Wexford before deciding what action to take.

Duffy said he has written to Wexford to ask about the "personalised" comments.

Disrepute

"Because of the nature of those comments management felt it appropriate to write to Wexford asking why they shouldn`t face charges of disrepute," said Duffy, who added that they only knew of the comments through the media.

Wexford took a hard line after their DRA action failed on a technicality. The GAA successfully argued that Wexford were too late with their original appeal.

Wexford challenged the GAA`s handling of the Cork issue claiming that the Rebel County should have been thrown out of both leagues for failing to fulfil their first two games.

Instead they forfeited just the points from the games and Cork were fined €400 for each game. Wexford appealed when they received their fixture to play Cork in the hurling league in March.

It led to a bitter dispute, with Wexford claiming the GAA and the president used "technicalities" to stymie their case. This, they suggested, was tantamount to hypocrisy given the president`s appeals at Congress that punishment should be accepted when it is handed down.

"On a broader issue one has to question both the president and Croke Park`s rationale in their use of `technicalities` to prevent the tribunal from hearing the substantive issue in this case," Wexford said in the `offending` statement.

"This is the same president who implored County Boards and their representatives at Congress in Sligo just two weeks ago to accept rulings of Croke Park and not to seek to circumvent them by means of `technicalities` or other loopholes.

"Yet in this instance every effort was made by Croke Park to deprive Wexford County Board of a hearing by use of the very same methods that the president implored County Boards not to use. Is this not hypocrisy in the extreme?"

In an ironic twist Wexford then suggested that Croke Park would not explore the matter further.

"We have no doubt that Croke Park will respond, if they do, to this press release by simply stating the matter has now been decided by the DRA and is, therefore, at an end."

How wrong they were, as the GAA have now decided to get tough.

- Colm Keys

©independent.ie

This message has been edited - 14-may-2008 @ 12:04

Originally posted by Abruzzi Spur:
I supported the Cork players stance in terms of what they were up against down there, they were correct to strike when they did. I also would have supported throwing them out of the league as this the punishment by the rulebook.

Weighing this up the Wexford county board are 100% accurate with the word hypocrisy in their statement imo. Nickey has been a terrible president anyway, only interested in sound byte over substance.

Originally posted by Croppy Boy:
Wexford Co Board are agian showing that, though they taking the correct ploy in these matters, they are making a complete balls of making their point.

The correct strategy would have been to send an official complaint to Croke Park   (point out the irony of Brennan`s statement and the situation that they were met with at the DRA  )   and copied the complaint to the press.

the were cuaght out earlier in the year as well when John Meyler called for Brennan to retain the relegated clubs in Division 1. He should have been told that they stance was to try and have Cork relegated due to the rules being altered. Instead it just smacked of `bad losing`.

It worried me that the Co Board can get the fundamentals wrong on official business. God knows how they`re running the underage coaching camps and providing support for the senior panels.

It`s no wonder that Kehoe decided to opt for a summer abroad.

Originally posted by spade caller:


if you have any knowledge of some of the people invovled in teh senior county board, you`ll know that they`re far from ideal candidates. this probably wouldn`t have happened if Mick Kinsella was still secretary, he`s very capable

Originally posted by Croppy Boy:
Know a good few of them spade caller, never said that any of them were, in their professional life, `ideal characters`. Where di you get that from?

I just said that they failed to manage their response to the times that they felt they were unjustly dealt with by the GAA.

This message has been edited - 14-may-2008 @ 14:38

This message has been edited - 14-may-2008 @ 15:05

Originally posted by count of monte cristo:
imagine the Wx county board getting something wrong, is there a more outdated co. board out there?