From todays Indo:
Ladies row brewing over Leitrim's exemption from relegation play-offs
Ladies football chiefs are facing the prospect of the TG4 senior championships being thrown into disarray because of a row brewing over Sunday's relegation play-off between Meath and Donegal.
The two counties are threatening not to line out for Sunday's game in protest against Leitrim's exemption from the play-offs, with Donegal trainer Alan Kelly describing the situation as "unusual" and "unfair."
President of Cumann Peil Gael na mBan Geraldine Giles strongly defended last June's decision to grant Leitrim a year's amnesty, despite having won last year's inaugural intermediate championship and fulfilled their league programme this season.
"At present we've had no official word from either county and as far as we're concerned, the play-off goes ahead on Sunday with the losers playing Waterford, and the losers of that game being relegated," said Giles.
"Leitrim are the All-Ireland Intermediate champions of 2007. There are circumstances that I'm not prepared to go into that have made it difficult for them. I don't think it would be fair on the intermediate teams to have last year's champions going back down."
One rather vital fact has been omitted from this article is the BIG fact that Leitrim didn't field a team in this years senior championship yet are somehow exempt from this relegation playoff. Hardly fair on the remaining 3 teams in this who made the effort to field teams. Quite a farcical situation.
Ladies row brewing over Leitrim's exemption from relegation play-offs
Ladies football chiefs are facing the prospect of the TG4 senior championships being thrown into disarray because of a row brewing over Sunday's relegation play-off between Meath and Donegal.
The two counties are threatening not to line out for Sunday's game in protest against Leitrim's exemption from the play-offs, with Donegal trainer Alan Kelly describing the situation as "unusual" and "unfair."
President of Cumann Peil Gael na mBan Geraldine Giles strongly defended last June's decision to grant Leitrim a year's amnesty, despite having won last year's inaugural intermediate championship and fulfilled their league programme this season.
"At present we've had no official word from either county and as far as we're concerned, the play-off goes ahead on Sunday with the losers playing Waterford, and the losers of that game being relegated," said Giles.
"Leitrim are the All-Ireland Intermediate champions of 2007. There are circumstances that I'm not prepared to go into that have made it difficult for them. I don't think it would be fair on the intermediate teams to have last year's champions going back down."
One rather vital fact has been omitted from this article is the BIG fact that Leitrim didn't field a team in this years senior championship yet are somehow exempt from this relegation playoff. Hardly fair on the remaining 3 teams in this who made the effort to field teams. Quite a farcical situation.