Kevin Ryan has let fly at Ulster Council over its decision to change the starting time of the Ulster U21 HC final to accommodate a club reserve league football game.

Wednesday night's provincial final clash with Down - which the Saffrons won by 30 points - was switched from a 7:30 start to 7pm so that it could act as curtain-raiser to the Armagh intermediate reserve league final between Silverbridge and St Peter's.

The winning manager was not impressed: "I'm just sick over it. It's just crazy. I mean, I'm looking at an intermediate reserve football game, and our game had to go at seven o'clock. It was fixed for half-seven from the start, all games are at half-seven," the Waterford man is quoted in The Irish Examiner.

"I think it's an absolute disgrace that the CCC, or whatever you call them, would fix a game for seven o' clock because they wanted to play an Armagh reserve championship game in football after it. Lads coming from north Antrim, they had to finish work at half-three to get here.

"It shows to me a bit about how some people think about hurling in Ulster. It shows what the CCC and anyone else in Ulster Council thinks of an Ulster U21 hurling final." Tweet

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