The Westmeath county board can’t say they weren’t warned.
The county board fixed the Westmeath minor hurling final for just before the county senior final this afternoon in Cusack Park.
That’s fairly normal practice in many counties, apart from the fact that the clubs involved, Clonkill and Raharney, had written to the county board seeing a deferral of the game as a number of their U18 team are also in to line out in the senior clash fixed for 3.30 between the same clubs.
The county board apparantly failed to yield and the club today were forced into staying away from the game, which was schedule to take place early this afternoon
BREAKING – Westmeath Minor Hurling Final not going ahead – teams have refused to field in protest at scheduling before senior match
— Midlands 103 Sport (@MidlandsSport) October 18, 2015
@MidlandsSport no teams and no crowd. pic.twitter.com/JxMdPmrTdn
— Chloe (@ChloeK237) October 18, 2015
Looks like both minor hurling teams in Westmeath have refused to play in protest
— Emmet Ryan, back in The D-SIX (@emmetjryan) October 18, 2015
