Tiernan Kelly Incident

Well to be honest, if that is the attitude people would take, then Id support the gaa appealing themselves so the process continues. They can then play the semi final in the meantime with bans standing pending appeals.

At the end of the day, they ARE contributing to a melee so they deserve punishment. Everyone pricking about with loopholes at every turn is only bringing the game into disrepute and dragging it where it shouldnt be.

I phrased that wrongly above. I knew Dwyer and Boylan are only the managers who won All Ireland with pile of U21 players. Sean in 1996 and Micko in 1975. I meant to say that, just phrased that wrongly. They also took teams from nowhere to win Sam along with Heffernan, McGrath and John O Mahony. And Heffernan and Boylan are the only managers to win football All Ireland with no underage sucess. Micko nearly did it with kildare. Underage sucess is winning or least reaching minor or U21 All Ireland final.

The new All star footballer of the year award not Texaco, began in 1995. The only players to win that new player All star footballer of the year award twice is Trevor Giles and Brian Fenton. When Fenton won it recently, people said he was only 2nd player to win this award twice, referring to the new All star Footballer of the year award.

All Star Footballer of the Year Award 1995 to 2022 Giles and Fenton won it twice, the only players to do so. This is the only footballer of the year award now.

Texaco Footballer of the Year Aaward 1958 to 2011 Jack O Shea won 4 times

We are both right.

Great nostalgia there...I'm a Kilkenny man so not greatly qualified on the subject but I loved that Meath team of the late 80s...they really took no ****.

Even though they lost that day, Mick Lyons getting Colm O'Neill sent off in 1990 was a classic GAA moment and legendary Lyons.

I can't remember now, had they anybody that played on the 4 winning teams, 87 to 99?

5 and a half months for eye gouging, absolutely pathetic by the CCCC!

Kelly will be back for McKenna Cup.... Truly is a pathetic response by the GAA

Incident needs to be taken very serious by GAA if they want to show they will no longer accept this as 'normal' behaviour & part of the game.

Buck should stop with the head GAA not just the Teams & players that bring the shame on thier specific county.

The field of play should not be a free for all - every player should know they will be punished when caught.

GAA organisation needs to be punished (eg advertisers withdrawing)

Team Management need to be punished

Players need to be punished

Socially it needs to be agreed that these serious incidents should no longer be tolerated as part of the physical game.

"Daytime TV for family to watch sporting entertainment" - Allowing these incidents develope makes a complete joke of that.

Unless the GAA are financially punished, nothing will change.

No real surprise that the usual ridiculous sanctions are handed out. The lack of proper discipline in GAA matches is a huge problem and I think its high time clear rules were established and players and managers respected them . Almost after every game beaten teams are blaming officials for them losing the game . County boards etc should stop trying to look for loopholes at every opportunity to get their players off no matter what they did .Not a fan of rugby but I admire the general respect the refs get and proper bans are dished out as far as I know .

Disgraceful, it should have been a minimum of two years.

So currently Sean Kelly is going to miss captaining his team in an All Ireland Semi Final for reasons unknown to all and Tiernan Kelly is going to miss zero Armagh games.

Presumably common sense will be applied and the former will be reversed but jeez this disciplinary process is an absolute farce.

They might as well be honest about it and write it into the rules - clearly the GAA will happily tolerate a certain amount of on and off field fistycuffs and wrestling. Once it doesn't get too much out of hand or get too much exposure on TV etc. Just part and parcel of the game.

Totally agree. far as I know the league does not start until January so he will not even miss a league game. The only team to suffer will be his club side. Armagh made a total joke of the system when they appealed and won getting four off after the melee with Donegal. The GAA had to have seen that but sat on their hands, which to me, went a long way to causing last weeks scenes.

Even the latest sanction show the GAA know that the whole procedure is not fit for purpose with the one match bans on two Armagh and one Galway player. Especially if the Galway player is the one that deservedly decked Tiernan Kelly. It`s just show on the GAA`s part hoping for no other embarrassment by anyone appealing.

The whole disciplinary procedure needs to be overhauled and these loop holes that are being exploited by lawyers on appeal shut off once and for all. Increasing the penalty when an appeal is not successful would make counties think twice before appealing. A sanction system should also be put in place to sanction team management where there are repeated infractions occurring under their stewardship as a lot of what is going on is not dreamed up by individuals or groups of players off their own bat.