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Clare call in gardaĂ­ over online abuse of Fitzgerald

Clare County Board have asked the gardaĂ­ to investigate a complaint lodged by secretary Pat Fitzgerald arising from the abuse he has received on social media over a prolonged period.

It’s a significant development at a time when the level of vitriol directed online at players and administrators in all sports has reached new heights.

Clare County Board chairman Joe Cooney confirmed that the complaint had been filed with the gardaí in the hope that they will find out who’s behind the consistent attacks on Fitzgerald.

"A complaint has been lodged with Clare GAA by an employee (Pat Fitzgerald). It arises from social media and what has been put up on it, not alone over the last couple of months but the last number of years.

"Other officers of Clare GAA have also been badly maligned on social media. It’s not good enough for people working as volunteers for the GAA whether at club or county level to be subjected to that. In fact, it’s a disgrace.

“It has been going with Pat for a while back, but other officers have been getting it very badly too over the last couple of weeks and months. We’ve handed it over to An Garda Síochána now and we want a thorough examination to be carried out to find out who’s behind it and put an end to it,” said Cooney.

It remains to be seen how much - if any - progress the gardaĂ­ can make, but the fact that Clare decided to make an official complaint on behalf of their long-serving secretary underlines how seriously they are taking the matter.

It’s understood that Fitzgerald came in for particularly nasty social media attacks in recent times as Clare went through the process of finding a replacement for Donal Moloney and Gerry O’Connor as county hurling manager. The position went to former All-Ireland winner Brian Lohan.

Meanwhile, Limerick man Shane O’Neill is to be the new Galway hurling manager. He had a very successful stint as manager of Na Piarsaigh, who he guided to All-Ireland club success in 2016 and to the final a year later where they lost to Cuala (Dublin) in a replay.

Landing the Galway job is a big break for O’Neill in what will be his first run at senior inter-county management. John Fitzgerald will be his coach and two selectors to be chosen in the coming weeks.

Despite failing to reach the All-Ireland stages of this year’s championship after finishing fourth in Leinster, Galway, the 2017 All-Ireland winners and 2018 runners-up, will be strong contenders for major honours next year.

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@twiceasnice97 and @TwoRunnyEggs in serious bother here you’d feel

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Printers will surely be outlawed completely in Clare after this.

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Be interesting to see who gets first call on him between Collins and Lohan

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He has committed to both under 20 panels for what it’s worth.

God help the poor fucker that has to mark him at junior b level next year

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My last game of football, I may have mentioned, I was put marking this red haired scrawny looking young lad. Grand job, thought I.
He scored, iirc, 2-9 in the first half. When I asked him who t f he played for in Ireland, he said “the mayo minors”

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Typical Mayo lad. Wouldn’t mention the club at all

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Yerrah every cunt that plays GAA abroad claims to have been a county minor.

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This lad still was playing mayo minor. The lads had a great oul hoot at my expense after.

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Squeaky bum time for @twiceasnice97

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Who is this Phil Walsh geezer?

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BREAKING NEWS:

This page understands that tonight the County Secretary will dedicated a Very large portion of his report to how this page has been a problem for him and his family … he will spend his time pleading for information the page, THE IS DISGRACEFUL FAKE NEWS

But in his report he won’t be addressing:

  1. why our management recruitment was a joke in the summer

  2. why the chair and secretary attempted to rail road Louis Mulqueen into the post of senior hurling manager post

  3. why Donal Moloney a great man was disgracefully treated and publicly humiliated by the exec of the board

  4. revelations that one recently retired player had to beg the GPA for medical funding help after the county board failed to provide support

  5. the near €5m paid for a centre of excellence that remains an embarrassment

  6. why the manager of the senior team had to beg for breakfasts to be provided to players after their morning session

  7. why gates were left locked and players / management left waiting for sessions to start

8 the lack of a cohesive business plan to maximise the revenues of Clare Gaa

  1. no governance structures that would meet the levels of accountability required to other organisations of a similar size

  2. over paid executive positions remain and are being paid for by Clare Gaa when central GAA council will fund those roles for younger people

  3. the shocking revelation that for land in use by Clare Gaa at the centre of excellence we paid €50-60k an acre for ! Yes folks €50-60k An acre for marginal land in use ! :flushed::flushed:

  4. Why he remains in place despite the disaster of his tenure the last 3 years

  5. Millions spent on Cusack Park and still last the toilets were still like a cow shed with a leak on the floor ! And the Fencing needing to be Redone

He will talk about fake abuse, he will talk about being personally attacked all of which is bullshit !

But he won’t talk about the Joke that Clare Gaa has become under the Exec board that is currently in place.

DO NOT BE SUCKED IN By this deflection

This information was leaked by a county board member embarrassed by what has happened this summer

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Overheard two Clare fellas talking in a shop last night. They reckoned Lohan is the man, and that they’d meet again in Croke Park.

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TNH

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Should be beating Tipp by 10 plus points with that team tbf.

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This schtick never gets tired Har

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Not a bad lineup for the time of year at all imo. :man_shrugging:

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Strong. Will morey and Ryan eventually switch?

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You could have Fitzgerald mid and move Morey back too, early days yet