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Published 21:20 12 Feb 2019 GMT
Updated 21:26 12 Feb 2019 GMT
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The powers that be informed them on Thursday, the day of the college's Electric Ireland Fitzgibbon Cup quarter final, that they would be playing GMIT the following day, with the game fixed for Friday at 1.30 in the GMIT pitches.
Unsurprisingly, Mary I refused to fulfil that fixture. Mary I closes at 1.30 on a Friday. College students all over the country go home for the weekend, for training, for their part-time jobs and for other reasons.
"Rarely, if ever, is a college GAA game played of a Friday, so we stood our ground," said McNeive to SportsJOE.They contacted GMIT seeking a re-fixture, they contacted Croke Park. GMIT refused and so did the CCC, wait for it... on player welfare reasons.
"Complete hypocrisy," says McNeive. "They said it would have been unfair to have players playing three times in one week, yet they had requested us to do exactly that the week previous," he continued.
"They've bypassed our fixture," said the team's captain. "We'd lads training last night, we're completely in the dark, we don't know what's going on and though we tried to contact the CCC, they're basically ignoring us."The HE GAA website hasn't been updated with the fixtures, though the letter they received has GMIT down for Friday's semi-final. They will attempt to appeal this decision, but for the moment, they're in limbo.
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