Niall McNamee has revealed how recent rumours linking him with a move to Kildare originated on a bogus Twitter account that was created in his name.

The Rhode clubman, who has threatened not to play for Offaly again in protest at the delay in appointing a new manager, only became aware of the account 'Niallers15' when the imposter tweeted: "All the speculation about me joining Kildare next year are COMPLETELY false #ridiculous."

He told Midlands 103: "I didn't know anything about it until last Thursday when one of the lads texted me to say that he had heard that I was after saying about the Kildare thing on Twitter.

"It was the first I heard about it. I was never on Twitter in my life, so I couldn't believe it. There's after being over 100 messages posted on it, which have absolutely no relevance to me and I didn't know anything about them.

"It's a bit uncomfortable, that someone can do something like that."

The former Offaly captain added that he had contacted Twitter to try and have the page removed.

"I'm not sure what the process is but I want to get it stopped. I am still waiting to hear back on it, but I don't see how someone can set up in a different person's name.

"There are photos that are on it that I could have taken myself. The person who did it would have access to me and that is the most worrying thing about it." Tweet

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