Updated / Saturday, 9 Jan 2021
10:17
Davy Fitzgerald: It has been tough
Davy Fitzgerald has opened up on the pages and pages of abuse himself and his father Pat, the Clare GAA secretary, have been subjected to online.
Earlier this week, Clare club Sixmilebridge wrote a letter to The Clare Champion strongly condemning the online attacks. We are a club that represents community, promoting a deep sense of place and a sense of belonging, it read. All of this adds up to a club which will not stand aside if we as a club believe any of our members are being unfairly treated. Two of our members, Pat & Davy Fitzgerald, have been subject to sustained personal abuse [on-line & in-person] due in part to the prominent public positions they hold on a National & County Stage.
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