The Offaly footballers are to fulfil their Allianz League fixture with Tipperary this weekend following the death of Liam Kearns.
The players, management and county board officials, still very much in shock at the sudden passing of the team manager on Sunday, met in Tullamore tonight and it was agreed that they would see out their Division Three campaign as scheduled, starting with the trip to Thurles on Saturday.
However, Offaly are to request that the throw-in time be moved from 6pm to 2pm so that the fixture, which will naturally take quite an emotional toll on them, won’t have such a lengthy build-up on the day. The game will be trying for the Tipperary players too as Mr Kearns was their manager for four seasons up to 2019.
