Dunne denies Hyland’s Cavan quit claims
MARTIN DUNNE has contradicted Cavan manager Terry Hyland as to his reason for quitting the county panel. This week Hyland claimed that the 27-yearold Cavan Gaels sharpshooter had opted to leave the squad because the player wanted to focus on his accountancy exams and ‘go travelling’. However, yesterday, in a pointed tweet, Dunne posted that he would be remaining in the country. ‘I am not going travelling,’ tweeted the Cavan ace. Hyland claimed this week that inter-county football was in crisis, pointing to the fact that he had lost 14 of last year’s panel, claiming that players could not commit due to the amount of time involved. Meanwhile, Armagh star Kevin Dyas is set to line out for Kilmacud Crokes this year. The former AFL star is understood to have sought a request from his home club Dromintee to join the Dublin side. Dyas, whose season last year was badly interrupted by injury, has already committed to playing for Armagh this season, having played a pivotal role in the Orchard County’s run to the All-Ireland quarter-finals in 2014. He is to become the latest Armagh player to join a Dublin club, joining team-mates Ciaran McKeever, Andy Mallon and Joe Feeney in playing for clubs in the capital. Crokes — who last won the Dublin Championship in 2010 — were knocked out of this year’s competition by eventual winners Ballyboden St. Endas. Elsewhere, the Leinster Council confirmed yesterday that Westmeath’s fixtures this weekend in the Bord na Mona O’Byrne and Walsh Cup were subject to changes of venue. The hurlers’ Walsh Cup assignment tomorrow against NUI Galway, which was originally due to be played at Cusack Park, will now be played at St Loman’s in Mullingar. The footballers’ O’Byrne Cup clash with Maynooth on Sunday has been moved to Hogan Park in Moate, having initially been scheduled to go ahead in Kinnegad.