Noel Walsh, former Chairman of the Inter-provincial Task Force, has hit out strongly at the decision by Croke Park chiefs to fix this year's inter-provincial matches on the same dates the International Rules games take place in Australia. Walsh is aghast that the Inter-provincial semi-finals have been provisionally fixed for the weekend of October 24/25 which will clash with Ireland's tussle with the Aussies in Perth on October 24th. "This is typical of how the Inter-provincials are viewed at the highest level, they don't give one God damn about it," Walsh insisted. "You can't be organising it at the same time as another competition which will be getting more marketing and profile. "I'd imagine the fixture makers in the CCCC didn't have this as one of their priorities but rather that they just had to fit it in somewhere. "It's an insult to the players, it's provocative and it's undermining. There seems no great interest in promoting the inter-provincials which is depressing." Tweet

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