Rory Gallagher - A dismissed case that was dealt with and brought to attention? Mod Note in OP

Gallagher hasn't sued any of the media outlets that repeated his wife's story.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/if-my-story-helps-one-woman-or-man-then-it-will-have-been-worth-it-nicola-gallagher-on-domestic-abuse-claims/a1936363625.html

If he didn't sue them, there is no chance of him suing Jarlath Burns.

He wasn't found innocent in court, the allegations never went to court.

Rory Gallagher's biggest problem is the most people don't believe him.

Don't know who the player is you are talking about.

Nevertheless, there is also a difference between an ordinary player and a person in authority. Higher standards expected and required of a person in authority. If that is the difference between Gallagher and Hayes and others, I can understand Burns' position in relation to that. Hayes shouldn't be allowed anywhere near the management or coaching of any GAA team, senior or underage.

To a certain extent, those who have committed criminal or other violent acts whether guilty or not, should be given another chance in society if they genuinely are atoning for that act(s). That second chance should be at an entry level. However, they should not be in a position of authority of others until there is clear long-term evidence that they are a changed person. Given that we have seen no such acknowledgement from Gallagher, and that there is no evidence at all of such change, even in the short-term, he should not be anywhere near a GAA team.

I doubt it very much. His comments appear to be limited to that it doesn't look good for the GAA to have an alleged wifebeater coaching in a club. That is fair comment.

It would be bad for the GAA to have Gallagher involved anywhere even remotely high profile again so I don't really have a problem with him conveying his opinion to Naas (who were essentially free to ignore him I believe).

The GAA in general should have put more pressure on Limerick to sideline Hayes at least for a while IMO

Kyle Hayes found guilty by a jury.. gallagher has been found guilty of nothing… remember innocent til proven guilty…

wonder will Burns issue a letter to the club of the Armagh player involved in the incident on the team holiday and basically instruct them not to play said player even though he hasnt been found guilty of anything… did he send a letter to John Kiely and the Limerick county board about Kyle Hayes.. if the answer is no to both of those.. then he should stay out of Naas business..

I am sorry but your casual dismissal of a man attacking a man as men will be men is disgusting I bet you wouldn't be that flippant if you were talking to a victim of such a crime. It's almost like your saying stop been dramatic and get on with it.

This is not to dimish any crime on women.

The ferocity and casualty Kyle Hayes attacked that man I would not be surprised if he has been in other fight that gave been hushed up

As for McGregor he is innocent criminally but has been found against in a civil case

Edit I said Kiely when I should have said Kyle Hayes

I have previously pointed this out, but I will repeat it in a different way.

There is a huge difference between allowing a man who has committed a crime or done wrong rehabilitating himself through participation in sport as a community activity as a participant, and putting that man in a position of authority over others.

I draw a clear distinction between the two. I would have no problem with Gallagher participating as an individual in a Masters team and learning a little about empathy with others, but he should never be allowed coach or manage a team, certainly not until he shows some kind of self-knowledge and repentance.

couldn’t agree more, can’t figure out this crack of defending him.

no I’m genuinely not aware that Kiely assaulted anyone, could you post a link or something to it please, this is all news to me. Can’t wait to read it.

Ah lads, come on and read the post ffs

Mod Edit

Warning issued.

Indeed. Maybe his family look after them when he's working. I was just wondering how he got custody of them over their mother. That's unusual.

I think part of the problem with Burns intervention is the inconsistency of it- off the top of my head, in recent years/ currently we have:

Niall Gilligan of sixmilebridge accused of serious assault on a 12 year old boy. Gilligan has been a selector there though it’s unclear if he still has that role post charge.

Kyle Hayes in Limerick convicted of serious assault. The Limerick team manager provided a character reference for him that presumably influenced the severity of sentence. The same lad has subsequently been convicted of dangerous driving. Hayes continues to play for Limerick.

two of Hayes brothers were recently convicted of a savage assault on a man. Testimonials for one of the two included his GAA club where he captains the junior B team (captains not captained btw)

in 2021two Kerry footballers had convictions for savagely assaulting an innocent man overturned - their barrister called them role models at the appeal and they received several positive testimonials. Ronan Buckley continues to play for Kerry

Dublins Diarmuid Connolly twice pled guilty to assault (2014 and 2024). After the 2014 incident Connolly continued to play for Dublin

I could go on but the lax attitude of the GAA top brass to violence and criminality, coupled with the willingness of GAA figures to give testimonials kind of makes a farce of Burns new found sense of virtue. It’s particularly laughable for Burns to talk about the “…values we uphold and standards we set" in light of the above

The allegations against Gallagher may very well have some or even complete truth. However Burns willingness to get involved here in a case where Gallagher is at least entitled to an initial presumption of innocence stands in pretty stark contrast to the GAAs utter silence and even endorsement of individuals found guilty of serious violent offences.

Of all of those mentioned by you, only the selector (and you don't know whether he is still a selector) and the captain fall into categories I believe similar to Gallagher.

Hayes, Connolly, Buckley are not in positions of authority, they are only ordinary players, partaking in an amateur sport.

Burns is doing this to position himself as a future political candidate, probably Seanad or President.It's completely self serving and cynical by him, same reason he went on his quasi political speech after one of the all irelands last year.

I think Gallagher is a scumbag and i wouldn't want him involved in my club so I feel no sympathy for him but Burns doesn't deserve any credit for speaking on this although a lot of the idiots on twitter are falling for it.

The reason he intervened in this case only is that in the eyes of a lot of the twitter mob (which are largely women in this case),accusations of assaulting a woman are the worst crime of all, you could shoot 10 men dead and it would be less of a crime than assaulting a woman according to the mobs on twitter.So you have to care more about this than other scumbag behaviour to appease the twitter mob.

BTW I think assaulting a woman is amongst the lowest of the low, just in case people think I'm making excuses for that type of behaviour.