Two quit Clare panel amid 'double standards' claim

Clare hurler Davy O'Halloran has claimed that the team's management are guilty of "double standards" after O'Halloran and Nicky O'Connell left the panel for refusing to accept what they saw as unfair disciplinary action.

O'Halloran and O'Connell left the panel this week, after they refused to accept three weeks of punishment, which O'Halloran says involved being forbidden to access team changing rooms, wearing team gear, and speaking to or training with team-mates at training sessions.

O'Halloran also said that he was made to train on his own doing intense physical work away from the main training session.

The 2013 All-Ireland winner told the Irish Times that the pair had been punished for being seen out socially in February but that they had been injured and weren't drinking on the night in question.

O'Halloran claimed that a senior member of the team had previously escaped censure despite a member of management being aware of him drinking and that the duo couldn't accept "one rule for us and a different rule for someone else".

"I had a strained hamstring so I wasn't able to train anyway so that's why I was out. I definitely wouldn't have been out if I could have featured against Galway. And I wasn't drinking," he said.

"Myself and Nicky O'Connell were out two nights before the Galway game and the two of us were actually injured at the time and we weren't drinking.

"We met one of our trainers out and he said he would say it back to the captain about us being out and we just said fair enough.

"Davy wasn't told until after the Cork game because they didn't want to tell him until after the two league games so they waited until we had our week's break.

"He then called a meeting on the Tuesday night in the dressing room, he called it out in front of everyone [the punishments].

"While all of this was happening another senior player told Nicky that he'd had a meeting with one of the selectors who told him he knew that he was drinking but he wasn't going to say anything about it.

"We just thought it was double standards, one rule for us and a different rule for someone else just because he was a pivotal part of the team and we weren't at the time basically."

O'Halloran claims that the pair wrote a letter explaining their decision to the squad but that Fitzgerald ripped it up without reading it to the players.

"A lot of the lads aren't happy, see lads are too scared to stand up to him," O'Halloran said.

"I just didn't see myself being there knowing that I was getting treated differently to another player - and if we were running around a pitch for three weeks we would have missed the whole league campaign and we wouldn't have had much of a hope of making it into a championship team."

O'Halloran could now become the latest Clare player to join the county's football side from their hurlers, after Podge Collins, Sean Collins and Cathal McInerney made the switch for this season.

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