Tom Ryan has resigned from his post as Limerick intermediate hurling selector just a few weeks after being appointed.

Just last month manager Don Flynn saw Ryan, Tony Roche and Declan O'Grady rubber-stamped as his backroom team for next season.

However, Ryan has since departed and the former Limerick senior boss explained that the removal of 2014 selectors Jimmy Carroll and Pat Howard was his reason for doing so.

"The only reason we were given for the removal of the two men was that the management team was too big - but then they come along and appoint a new person (O'Grady). I can't stand by and see the two men (Carroll and Howard) isolated like that," Ryan told the Limerick Leader newspaper.

Roche has also stepped down in protest over the duo's removal and Ryan has hit out at the lack of honesty with the appointments.

"I thought we had all worked very well together this year and we had a review meeting with the County Board officers in the Woodlands Hotel and everything was positive - there was no mention of selectors been dropped," outlined Ryan.

"Knowing the amount of work that Jimmy and Pat did last year, I can't understand why there was a change needed. It's important that everybody is honest and if there was something wrong then we should have been told that at the review meeting."

It is understood that the issue will be discussed at this Tuesday night's county board meeting. 

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