Westmeath face up to loss of Glennon

Efforts to coax Denis Glennon back into the Westmeath fold for the championship have so far failed

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May 12 2009 04:47 AM

Westmeath are preparing for their forthcoming Leinster SFC campaign without star forward Denis Glennon, it has emerged.

Glennon has not returned to Westmeath training since the end of the league and, with time pressing on, efforts to coax him back have so far failed. It is understood that Glennon's reasons for not returning are not team or management related.

Glennon has been away from county football before but so close to the championship, his absence is more worrying for the midlanders. Westmeath are playing Mayo in a challenge on Thursday.

Meanwhile, Meath's Competition Controls Committee have returned en bloc after temporarily resigning their positions.

The committee had taken the action after a local club St Patrick's sought a hearing against a CCC decision that awarded the points from a senior championship match to Simonstown because Pat's refused to play on the same day that one of their club presidents, former Mayo footballer Jimmy Curran, was being buried.

On the night of the hearing the CCC did not defend their decision and, as a consequence Pat's were awarded a re-fixture. The CCC then resigned but were in Croke Park for a meeting last week and convened over the weekend to agree to reinstatement.