Tiernan Kelly Incident

There was enough thuggery going on by those Meath teams and cynical play.

The Tadgh Kennelly hit on Nicholas Murphy which received zero sanction was pretty bad in fairness.

The amount of lads claiming to know who started what after watching the game on TV is a joke. Comer instigated it being the general consensus as that's when the cameras started picking up on it.

Morgan ran from 6 or 7 meters away and charged into Comers back as he was taking out his mouth piece and walking towards the tunnel. A dirty cowardly act, to add to the others he committed during the game.

Comer then confronted him and was promptly surrounded by 4 Armagh players at which point Donaghy tries to intervene and the Galway players start pulling the Armagh players away. Comer is held by 2 of the original Armagh players when the thug who has charged 80m across the pitch to get involved comes to comers side and starts gouging his eyes. A Galway sub dispatches him with a right hook before he is jumped on by 2 more Armagh players.

Apart from the right hook to the gouger (fully deserved and probably needed given what could have happened). Galway were completely in the right in this instance.

Armagh also have a case to answer for two assaults during play. A punch to Shane Walsh's face by Morgan and a punch on Conroy by Rian O'Neill. All of which 7 officials managed to ignore.

If they took the decision to deal with them then there'd be a whole lot less incidents to stop the flow of the game. Unfortunately come championship all willingness to follow the rules goes out the window. I cannot understand how they can let the players who make the game worth watching like Walsh and Clifford get the abuse they get. I know of no other sport where being elite is a licence to foul and abuse you at will.

exactly why the Gardai should have beeen involved but in good old Ireland and the sway this organisation have in society…

Years ago now but I remember a Kildare club player receiving a 92 week ban for head butting a referee.

that’s how seriously the GAA take violence… he head butts a referee and he can return to play football looking for that article it was 96 weeks … https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-football/gaa-strikes-back-on-violence-26299057.html

The GAA is soft on violence….likes to set itself up as a standard bearer of this and that in society but..l

That's not true, maybe if the person is over 45 but growing up in rural Tyrone or Derry in the 2000s and 2010s was not really any different to any southern county. Of course there are towns with bad reputations like Lurgan, Portadown and Omagh but I am sure there are rough towns in Republic too.

Ulster was the most important region in Irish history. Southerners like you try to belittle us but any well read Ulsterman will be content with his history. Southerners only wish they had the ancestry we have, the formidable clans we had. That's the reason the plantations occured in the first place, because of the fear the English had of the native clans.

Even after the eye gouging attempts, poor victim Tiernan was very agressive when Galway 3 was chasing him and remonstrating about what he had just seen him do.

That's right. It makes absolutely no difference to me. I'm just aware that Cork were very bitter against Meath in the 80's. That they beat them in 1990 didn't seem to change that fact. Maybe some still hold that grudge, but there hasn't been that much between them in terms of important games since then.

What about the garda that stood 5 metres away and just looked on doing nothing?? looked too lazy to move unless there was a free meal been served.

This nonsense has been trotted out by a few clueless people including yer wan on The Tonight Show on Virgin Media.

So a row is happening between a large group of males,all physically strong lads and going at each other,you expect a one Gard on his own to wade in there?

I was sat a few rows back,it was the worst row I've seen in Croke Park since Mayo Meath in 96 which I had a good view of aswell.I imagine a Gards training would say if he's on his own not to wade into a crowd of 20 lads fighting.

Would be funny if it does … I have a couple of Mayo pals and there good lads but they have told me straight up they wouldn’t be able to handle Galway winning an all Ireland after they have being so close for the last decade ! I think for some it would be nearly worse then them losing another final .. if we beat Derry they will really start to panic !

What was one Garda going to do in a melee of about 30 players? Start lashing the closest players with a baton?