The Carlow senior football squad have hit back at the claim that “player-related issues” had prompted the departure of manager Shane Curran and his backroom team during the week.
Curran abruptly quit as manager on Wednesday, 11 days out from Carlow’s Leinster championship opener against Meath, with a statement released from the county board saying the manager’s departure was due to “player-related issues which he believed were beyond the scope of the management team”.
This afternoon, the Carlow players released their own statement to local media in the county, saying that “player-related issues” were not to blame for the managerial upheaval and that they had “persistent concerns about the overall…