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The Irish Sun
22-05-2025
- Politics
- The Irish Sun
Cork ace Ashling Thompson makes worrying prediction ahead of Camogie Association's Special Congress on skorts saga
CAMOGIE ASSOCIATION bosses hope their concerns over the playing of this year's All-Ireland Championships are put to bed this evening as the skorts saga comes to a head at Croke Park. Following a spate of protests from inter-county teams over the required playing gear, a Special Congress has been convened in an attempt to resolve the issue. Approximately 150 delegates are set to be in attendance to vote on a motion which would allow each player to make their own decision over whether to wear a skort or shorts in competitive fixtures. A two-thirds majority is needed for it to pass. After similar motions were defeated last year, delegates are sure to be reminded that freedom of choice — and not the abolition of the skort — is the matter at hand. At Congress in April 2024, a motion proposing that players be permitted to choose between skorts and shorts only received 45 per cent support. Read More On GAA Just 36 per cent of delegates backed a separate motion for shorts to replace skorts. This was despite Gaelic Players Association research which revealed 70 per cent of inter-county players deem skorts uncomfortable, while 83 per cent would like the right to choose between wearing skorts and shorts. Conscious of the potentially catastrophic consequences of the motion not being given the green light this evening, Camogie Association chiefs have lobbied county boards and provincial councils to vote for change. But Cork star Ashling Thompson has admitted that she is not confident it will pass. Most read in GAA Hurling Speaking on the Square Ball podcast, she said: 'That fear is based on the fact that these are delegates that are voting. 'These numbers were given and you had delegates that represented the players . . . we were voted against by our delegates.' Limerick GAA fans troll RTE pundit Donal Og Cusack after win over Cork Thompson was due to play for Cork in the Munster final against Waterford earlier this month. But it was postponed on less than 24 hours' notice after both teams made it clear that they were only prepared to play in shorts. The motion will come into effect for the start of the All-Ireland Championships on Saturday if passed. A statement on the outcome of the vote is expected to be issued some time after 8pm. 1 Ashling Thompson worries that once again the wishes of the majority of players will be ignored
BBC News
03-03-2025
- Business
- BBC News
'Kinnear would leave a confusing legacy at Leeds'
As reported by the Daily Mail, external, Leeds CEO Angus Kinnear seems like he will be joining Everton at the end of this has had a turbulent time at United, and it has always been unclear precisely what decisions he was responsible leaders within the club have been assigned the responsibility for many of the major decisions during his peaked at ninth in the Premier League under Kinne, but it was Marcelo Bielsa who was credited with that rise. And rightly so, Bielsa transformed the mid-table Championship squad he ultimately Victor Orta was credited with the hiring of the Argentinian. Orta – a larger than life figure – was praised and criticised in equal measure during his time at Leeds. He brought Bielsa to the club, but for every Raphinha-type signing there was a Diego Llorente-type; and of course Jesse Marsch who failed spectacularly, was also Orta's Radrizzani's imprint on certain decisions could be more easily inferred. Six weeks after Leeds went on a much-criticised, post-season tour of Myanmar, Radrizzani's Eleven Sports signed a global rights deal to broadcast the Myanmar National the clearest indication of Kinnear's input were his programme notes and his annual interview with the Square Ball now abandoned programme notes made national news in December 2021 when he branded calls for an independent football regulator as "Maoist".Some CEOs become synonymous with their brands. Kinnear's strategy of shirking the spotlight seems deliberate, perhaps to avoid the kind of scrutiny that Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is currently only in Angus' absence will Leeds fans get an appreciation of the impact he had. Clearly Everton see the value of him. But Kinnear's departure will mark the completion of 49ers Enterprises restructure, as they leave one of the last links to Radrizzani's ownership more from Adonis Storr at The Roaring Peacock, external
