No reprieve for McMenamin

GAELIC GAMES DISCIPLINARY NEWS:KILKENNY HURLER Eddie Brennan was cleared to play in tomorrow's National Hurling League match with Galway after the GAA announced the player's red card from last week's clash against Waterford had been rescinded by Thursday night's meeting of the Central Hearings Committee.

Tyrone footballer Ryan McMenamin wasn’t as successful with his appeal to the Central Appeals Committee and the CHC’s eight-week suspension for an incident with Kerry’s Paul Galvin in last month’s NFL match in Omagh was upheld.

It emerged Tyrone had declined to appeal a €2,000 fine imposed by the CHC for unruly scenes at the end of that match but it was announced the CHC had this week imposed a similar fine on Kerry in respect of the same incidents.

Meanwhile, the Cork county committee meeting scheduled for next Tuesday has been postponed for two days in order that an “information/consultative” meeting for the chairs and secretaries of all clubs and divisional committees, together with county board members, on the subject of the county’s long-running dispute with its senior hurlers, be held.

This is seen as an attempt by the executive to claw back some initiative in the dispute, which was also discussed by a meeting of clubs in Clonakilty last night and which has seen a succession of clubs at egms vote “no confidence” in hurling manager Gerald McCarthy.

Tomorrow evening the 2008 players will meet club representatives to consider the results of those egms. Earlier a protest march in support of the players will proceed to Páirc Uí Chaoimh for the NFL match between Cork and Fermanagh.