Local journalists at last night's Clare county board meeting were a bit miffed after being asked by chairman Michael McDonagh to refrain from tweeting.

Joe O Muircheartaigh of the Clare People and Clare FM's Derrick Lynch had been providing updates to their Twitter followers when the chairman - who came under fire over the manner of hurling manager Davy Fitzgerald's recent reappointment - intervened.

Chairman Malty tries to issue executive order telling media not to tweet from Clare GAA meeting...

- Joe Ó Muircheartaigh (@muirioch) September 3, 2015

Chairman McDonagh says he knows nothing about social media but he has a twitter account @mcdonagh4clare for general election purposes.

- Joe Ó Muircheartaigh (@muirioch) September 3, 2015

John Meade from Kildysart has his say... Hitting out at 'the shite written by some journalists' in Clare who are not part of Clare GAA.

- Joe Ó Muircheartaigh (@muirioch) September 3, 2015

So it seems that the Clare County Board is trying to muzzle Twitter's 883 million users #worthatry

- Peter O'Connell (@Westclarepage) September 3, 2015

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