A proposal to have Brennan ceded to Graiguecullen and Laois, from Carlow, and reinstated, was passed without debate. Brennan also had his suspension lifted.

The talented young player was ruled out of the Laois minor football team last year because it was deemed he was a Carlow player, and later having played with Graiguecullen in the Laois minor football championship he was suspended for 12 months.

The Graiguecullen team was removed from the county minor final and the title awarded to St. John Bosco while club chairman Michael Bolton and secretary Jimmy Hurley were both suspended for 12 months also.

Behind the scenes activity in recent months to regularise Brennan, and a number of other players attached to clubs on both sides of the Barrow in the area, by the Leinster Council and Laois and Carlow county boards reached a successful conclusion at last week’s meeting in Portlaoise.

Barry Brennan, son of former Laois player Willie Brennan, is now free to play with both Graiguecullen and Laois. However, he is no longer a minor player and he will have to wait until 2002 for an opportunity to play under 21 football with Laois.

The players ceded to Co. Carlow were Sean Hennessy and Andrew Nolan to Eire Og, and Peter Whelan, Mark Whelan and Bobby Whelan to Tinryland.

The players ceded to Laois were Fionn O’Rourke, Ross Alcock, Barry O’Sullivan, Patrick Doogue, Michael Curran, John Brannigan and Brennan, all to Graiguecullen.