Roscommon finances: GAA President Seán Kelly yesterday said he was happy that "any wrongdoings" in the Roscommon GAA crisis have "been corrected" - and he believes the county will "rally around" to take itself out of its €1.4-million mire.

Kelly's comments came after it emerged over €60,000 was transferred from Roscommon GAA finances to a company associated with a former chairman of the board, Stephen Banahan.

The money has since been repaid to the board, whose officers have been cited for "gross negligence".

The details of the money transfers were revealed in an audit of Roscommon's cash crisis - the Croke Park audit showed that €60,069 was paid to BLSB Ltd, and to associated accounts, between September 2004 and March 2005.

Banahan, who stepped down as chairman earlier this year, is a director of BLSB Ltd, and he has declined to comment on the matter.

Kelly also declined to comment on the specifics of the €60,000 transfer, other than to say "things may be misinterpreted to a certain extent".

The Roscommon county board are set to meet tonight, but board secretary Frank Dennehy said it was unlikely the finances would be discussed.

"It is an ordinary meeting of the board to discuss matters like the appointment of a new senior team manager, All-Ireland final tickets, and games administration issues," he said.

Kelly praised the Croke Park Finance Management Committee and the Roscommon board for dealing with the problems when they came to light.

"It was unfortunate that the county got out of hand, but our Finance Management Committee moved to resolve the problem immediately," he said.

"I have spoken to the principal officers of the county board and I am confident that they will do an exceptional job, and that the county will rally around."

He said the GAA was putting in place procedures to ensure something like this didn't happen again, and would also be providing improved training for county board officials to help them deal with increased financial turnover.

He accepted the GAA's financial procedures may have been "slapdash in a general sense" up to now, and said he was now more "conscious of the need to do it properly".

Roscommon county board are to hold an emergency general meeting in the next fortnight, and it is expected that the media - who were excluded from last week's meeting at which the auditor's report was presented - will be permitted to attend.