Clubs to vote again on new SFC
THE British government may be resisting calls for a second Brexit referendum, but Louth GAA clubs will get a second chance to vote on the controversial new amalgamated senior football championships that was successfully passed last Monday week.
Delegates will gather for a special county committee meeting this Wednesday night to debate and vote on a motion by the Naomh Mairtin club calling for the decision to be rescinded.
However, while the original vote only required a simple majority, the vote to rescind will require two-thirds (36) of the voting strength of 54, comprising 41 club delegates and 13 members of the management committee.
The motion as proposed by the Mairtins on behalf of 18 clubs who attended a meeting in the Monasterboice Inn last week reads as follows:
‘The motion We request that the county board management committee add the following motion to the Clar for the Coiste Chontae Lu meeting arranged for Wednesday 30th of January 2019.
‘We hereby give notice that at this meeting we will propose that motion 3 ‘All County Championship’ (attached), which was held over from the Louth Convention on December 11th 2018 and approved at a county board meeting on January 14th be rescinded.
‘We note that in accordance with Rule 4.3 we have conveyed notice to each member club of our intention to propose this rescindment.’
If it survives Wednesday’s follow-up motion, the successful Westerns’ proposal will see amalgamated teams from the junior and intermediate grades enter a new Senior Football Championship, the winners of which will go on to represent Louth in Leinster.
There was support for the idea of an amalgamated championship at a meeting in Monasterboice last Thursday night, but the consensus among the clubs represented was that it should not supersede or replace the existing Senior, Intermediate or Junior Championships.
A similar motion put forward by the county management committee a number of years ago was rejected by clubs, but that version proposed that amalgamated teams enter the existing senior championship and not an additional competition and if Wednesday’s motion to revert to the status quo is carried a similar motion could well be brought to convention again in December.