Offaly's Mairéad Teehan says there is no guarantee skorts issue will be resolved

Offaly camogie player Mairéad Teehan warns there is no guarantee the vote for players to have the choice to wear shorts instead of skorts will be passed at congress.

The issue has dominated the sport since the Leinster semi-final between Dublin and Kilkenny, when both sets of players walked on to the pitch wearing shorts instead of skorts as part of a protest.

Both sets of players were made to go back into the changing room and put on skorts, or else the game would not have gone ahead.

A week later, Cork and Waterford had both agreed to wear shorts in protest, but the Munster final was called off the night before the game was set to take place.

A GPA survey indicated 70 per cent of players had experienced discomfort wearing skorts, and 83 per cent wanted the option to wear shorts.

However, at last year's Congress in Waterford, two motions were tabled proposing the inclusion of shorts as part of the playing uniform, both of which were defeated.

As a result of the dispute, a special congress has been organised for May 22nd, where it is widely expected the motion to have the option to wear shorts will be passed.

However, speaking as she was named the Camogie player of the month for April, Teehan is not holding her breath the motion will pass.

"They are after calling for the special congress, which is great, but that is not a guarantee that it will be changed.

"It's the same delegates that are going to this Congress to vote.

"We can make noise about it now and in fairness to the media, it's been widely shared. But we still don't have any real power in terms of changing that, if the delegates don't actually listen and vote to allow that choice for us.

"I will be hopeful that it will go our way, but I know when you don't have