Former Monaghan, Fermanagh and Meath senior ladies intercounty manager Paula Cunningham has slammed the ladies football fixture setters.
Monaghan missed out on a chance to make the All-Ireland intermediate semi-final with a 18-points to 2-7 defeat to Down after extra-time.
However, Cunningham was frustrated as the ladies big day went straight up head-to-head with the men’s All-Ireland quarter-final.
It was “seriously disappointing that it clashed with the men's game,” Cunningham told Sportsbeat on Shannonside Northern Sound.
It was “not only on the day of the men's game, but similar times, so it just caught people.
“Sadly, again, the Ladies' Association. The promotion of it, you know, apart from the likes of yourselves who have given Ladies football and Monaghan and the fantastic promotion.
“It's just disappointing that, the clash” took place explained Cunningham. As the men threw-in in Croke Park at 1:45 against Louth. The women’s quarter-final was set for two o’clock in Páirc Esler, Newry.
“A lot of people, even in Monaghan, didn't know the game was taking place”. A lot of people I was speaking to didn't realise it was on. All the talk was with the men’s game.
“But, yeah, disappointing that people didn't even know it was taking place, never mind not being able to go to it. So, yeah, it is disappointing”.
