An ongoing battle by camogie gamers over the precise to put on shorts got here to a head on Saturday when the Kilkenny and Dublin groups have been pressured to vary into skorts earlier than their Leinster Championship semi-final may go forward.
The foundations governing taking part in gear for camogie, the ladies’s equal of hurling, state that it should embody skirt, skort – a pair of shorts with an overlapping cloth panel which resembles a skirt masking the entrance – or a divided skirt.
That is in distinction to ladies’s gaelic soccer the place shorts are allowed.
“Profession low for me right now when 60 plus gamers able to play a championship recreation in shorts are informed their match will probably be deserted if each participant does not grow to be skorts,” Dublin captain Aisling Maher posted on social media.
Camogie is ruled by the Camogie Affiliation of Eire, carefully linked to the Gaelic Athletic Affiliation (GAA) and one other problem to the rule can’t be introduced till 2027 after two motions have been defeated on the sport’s annual congress final yr.
Kilkenny and Dublin took to the sector at Blanchardstown sporting shorts, a call each groups had agreed on as a type of protest towards the rule, however have been informed by the referee that the sport could be deserted if the gamers didn’t change.
