Emlyn Mulligan has added fuel to his fiery Twitter comments yesterday which criticised the Leitrim county board's decision to cut overnight stays for their travelling teams.

Leitrim officials told their convention that representative sides had been asked to drop overnight stays due to the costs incurred and it has sparked an angry reaction from Mulligan, who captained the county's senior team during 2014.

"It obviously irritating," he told Newstalk's Oisin Langan at yesterday's Irish Independent Sports Awards.

"When I became captain last year, you try to lift the standards and make it as professional as you can.

"When you hear little things like this - it doesn't happen anywhere else and it's very annoying to hear about it."

Mulligan will miss the 2015 campaign as he has taken a career break to travel - a decision that he made before this measure was proposed.

"I just hope some of the lads on the team stand up to that because they deserve a lot better for the effort they're putting in," added the former Melvin Gaels clubman who has played with St Brigid's in Dublin for the last two seasons.

"It will take four-and-a-half hours to get to Wicklow (for Leitrim's Allianz NFL Division 4 match next February)."

The Connacht side also face long trips to Carlow and Offaly during their upcoming league campaign.

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