The row between new Meath football manager Eamonn Barry and senior county board officials is expected to be dealt with a county board management committee meeting on Wednesday night, November 30. Barry announced on Sunday that he is considering quitting just two months after taking over from Sean Boylan, following the county board's decision not to accept his brother Martin as a member of the coaching staff and Dessie Rogers as team physio at a meeting last Friday. Both men received lengthy suspensions from the Special Investigations Committee in 2003 following an alleged incident in the Meath dressing-room prior to the All-Ireland junior football semi-final. Martin Barry, who had Rogers as his physio at the time, led the Royals to the All-Ireland junior title that year, but it ended badly with the pair receiving 48-week and 96-week bans respectively. In a lengthy statement issued on Monday, Eamonn Barry alleged Meath football was being "held back by the present state of the county board. I have been left in the unexpected position of having to consider my future." He added: "I can't understand how in this day and age that Dessie Rogers and Martin Barry are being handed down life sentences by the Meath county board. "Fintan Ginnity (Meath chairman) stated that the county board would assist and support me in every possible way, but what has happened in the interim has made me wonder about that statement because the reality is totally different to the perception given. "I am not prepared to continue as Meath senior football manager under these circumstances. "My fellow selectors (Benny Reddy, Jody Devine and Andy McEntee) are standing full square behind me and find the current state of affairs completely unacceptable - that a county board executive can interfere with the running of the Meath senior football team and have the final say in who the personnel should be." Fintan Ginnity said that no emergency meeting had been arranged, though he admitted that the matter was likely to be discussed at Wednesday night's meeting of the county board management committee. "We already had a meeting planned for Wednesday night and it had nothing to do with this, but it is possible that the matter will be raised now." Barry plans to continue training the team this week and is likely to wait until after next Monday's full board meeting to decide on his next move. Tweet

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