CORK CAMOGIE BOSS Paudie Murray has played down claims his side were disrespectful towards the victorious Kilkenny team during the post-match formalities yesterday.
Kilkenny manager Ann Downey expressed her disappointment at Cork’s decision to warm down while Cats captain Meighan Farrell was presented with the National League trophy.
Kilkenny backed up last September’s All-Ireland final victory with a 2-7 to 0-10 win at the Gaelic Grounds, but Downey was critical of the Cork camp afterwards.
“It just doesn’t happen, to be quite honest,” she told KCLR yesterday.
“We can’t control what the Cork people will do or what the Cork players will do. You wouldn’t want to see it happening too often, to be honest.
“We just hope that our own team would always show respect to the opposition. I think they have done that.”
According to Downey’s opposite number Murray, the Rebelettes were gracious in defeat.
“To be honest I don’t know where it’s coming from,” he told KCLR this morning.
“As I said to you off air one thing that we always say to our players is you shake hands with your opponent and your team-mate after the game. We do it in training, you have got to have that respect.
“It was certainly done. I know I came into the middle of the field and all our players congratulated their opponents.
“We were in a circle in the middle of the field, granted the PA system wasn’t great there so it was very difficult to understand or hear any of the speeches, but I don’t know where it is coming from. It’s from someone that has very little to do on a Monday morning.”
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