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Clare in action against Wexford during Sunday s National League clash at Cusack Park. Two Wexford players, as yet unnamed, have tested positive for Covid-19. Photograph by John Kelly
Clare to closely monitor situation after two Wexford players test positive for Covid-19
May 19, 2021
THE Clare County Board will closely monitor its senior hurlers over the coming week after two members of the Wexford hurling panel tested positive for Covid-19 this week, writes Dan Danaher.
Wexford GAA chairman, Micheál Martin has confirmed that two players within the panel have tested positive for the virus.
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Clare GAA chairman Jack Chaplin had said that hurling supporters club accounts for 2012 to 2016 are not the business of the board.
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AN online meeting of Clare County Board had to be adjourned on Tuesday night due to technical issues, but not before Chairman Jack Chaplin had said that hurling supporters club accounts for 2012 to 2016 are not the business of the board.
He also indicated that as the Kilmaley club had not followed up in writing on questions raised by its delegate Niall Romer at the April meeting about the position of Secretary Pat Fitzgerald, these would not be addressed.
The investigation into alleged online abuse of Clare County Board secretary Pat Fitzgerald is “not far away from a file being prepared for the DPP”, his son Davy Fitzgerald said.
Gardaí say the probe is ongoing, with the Wexford boss reiterating the abuse “has to stop” adding they have compiled hundreds of pages detailing the abuse.
Speaking to the Irish Independent, Davy said “hopefully the DPP will see fit to prosecute this”.
“It’s not about Davy and Pat Fitzgerald, this is bigger, this stuff has to stop. It’s not about us, we’ve taken a bit of it. There’s a lot more people that have taken a lot more than we’ve taken,” he said.
By Ronan Judge
THE chairman of one of Clare’s biggest GAA clubs has called on the association to do more to stand up for employees who are the subject of online attacks.
Chairman of Sixmilebridge GAA, Paddy Meehan, told
The Clare Champion that some of the abuse directed at Clare County Board secretary Pat Fitzgerald, is “unbelievable.”
Allegations of online abuse against Pat Fitzgerald are the subject of a garda investigation.
Meehan says, “Pat Fitzgerald is a paid employee of the GAA and I don’t believe they have stood up for him and I don’t think they have backed him 100%. Maybe if employers start backing people… because you see it nowhere else. There was a case in Kerry there where a former soccer player was being abused and it went to court. It has to stop, this online abuse, people hiding behind computers. That’s where we’re coming from. I have often went to the Clare County Board, had issues and spoke out and that’s where you’ll get results, not comi