Monaghan manager Eamonn McEneaney has pleaded with the GAA to do more to help inter-county players find work.
The trend seeing county sides robbed of multiple players is ongoing as individuals continue to move abroad in search of employment, with Monaghan’s All Star football forward Thomas Freeman among the latest men to emigrate.
The Farney County star is New York-bound in the hunt for work and will not be available to McEneaney for the Championship campaign, with the former Louth boss adamant that Croke Park officials must do all in their power to lend assistance tho those players struggling to find jobs.
"It is something that the GAA need to look at and see can they improve the association by putting in more coaches that are inter-county players, which might keep them at home,” McEneaney said, speaking at Newstalk’s launch of their 2010 GAA championship coverage.
“It might work in our favour to help people out like that.
"Probably the funding is not there at the moment to do it within Monaghan, but it is certainly something that could be looked at on a national basis, where all counties could in some way receive funds for the coaching end of things that would help keep the likes of Tommy in a job and keep the likes of him at home."
Monaghan, without Freeman, will face Tyrone in their Ulster SFC quarter-final on June 5.