GAA pundit Joe Brolly has criticised a Sinn Féin MLA's defence of Peadar Heffron's former club.
The Derry All-Ireland winner called last week for Kickhams Creggan GAC in Randalstown to apologise to Mr Heffron.
The Catholic police officer suffered devastating injuries in January 2010 when a booby trap device detonated under his vehicle.
He had previously been a hurler and Gaelic footballer with the Kickhams club, helping it win two Antrim intermediate championships.
But in an interview published in the Sunday Independent, he told Mr Brolly that his club shunned him after he announced plans to join the newly-formed PSNI in 2002.
He said he was not picked for teams and was forced to leave when republicans came into a changing room and handed him a leaflet warning about the dangers of joining the force.
After the bomb attack, which saw him spend 10 months in hospital, he said two committee members did visit his parents' home but told them they were there only in a personal capacity.
The club said at the weekend that it condemned the attempted murder "unequivocally and without any ambiguity" but did not respond to claims it had ostracised Mr Heffron.
Sinn Féin's national chairman Declan Kearney, who is a relative of Mr Heffron and has links to the club, has said he shared his sympathy and support with him at the time.
In a video diary, Mr Kearney also said the club membership "deserve our support at this time", describing them as "decent people representing all that's good in the GAA".
"Both I and Kickhams GAC are on the record as unequivocally condemning that attack," he said.
"The reputation and integrity of Kickhams GAC and its members has also been seriously impugned this week, and those who have been responsible for these comments need to reflect on their actions. It serves no other purpose but attempt to sow division in the GAA community."
Responding to the video diary on Twitter, Mr Brolly said "the club's treatment of Peadar, hounding him out in '02, then pretending he didn't exist for 15 years, is shocking on any honest view".
He described the video as "nothing more than a piece of distracting, vacuous spin".
He added: "The club needs to look in. It's a great club but this will fester if it's not dealt with."
