JUST WHEN IT looked like Armagh’s media ban had been lifted, they have postponed a press briefing scheduled for this afternoon.
The Orchard County haven’t spoken to the majority of the media since the Ulster quarter-final win over Cavan in June, when they felt a brawl which took place was reported on unfairly.
It appeared the ban was about to end when an event featuring assistant manager Peter McDonnell and captain Ciaran McKeever was planned for 1pm today at Carrickdale Hotel in Dundalk.
However, at 10am this morning, Armagh issued a statement announcing that it had been cancelled.
“Today’s scheduled media activity involving members of the Armagh Senior Football Team and Management has been postponed.
“The GAA at Central Level is endeavouring to ensure that Armagh players and management figures will be available for interview at Croke Park this weekend before and after the county’s All-Ireland quarter-final meeting with Donegal.”
Here’s a look at how journalists on Twitter reacted:
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Every sports journalist should just boycott them, publish two or three pages entirely on Donegal players, management team and supporters on the lead up to this game. Bunch of absolute muppets, I wonder what do the players think of being treated like little kids? Told when they can speak and when they can’t? I hope they get annihilated this weekend
They probably had a shipment of cigarettes coming in and a few thousand gallons of diesel to put dye in so it’s hard to have time for the auld media stuff haye
these shower started a fight in the parade behind a band before a match to lay down a marker to Cavan and when the media rightly call it for the horrible act that it was these mob get the hump croke park should ignore them and stop any finance to them fools
Apparently they were the ones minding their own business and were attacked because they were not on the correct side of the parade.
Have a look at the whole incident and not just bit the Sunday game chose to show. Armagh started nothing .look it up on YouTube then come back to me
We know Armagh may not have been the main culprits in that particular event but they are losing quite a bit of neutral goodwill that might have been in their favour over all this carry on.
Cancelling a media briefing in the Carrickdale Hotel at last minute was childish but maybe they are heading to the Cryotheraphy Centre to heal their bruised egos !
Donegal will put an end to this rubbish on Saturday
unfortunately you might be correct but Armagh are the lesser of two evils
How exactly? For being one of the best outfits currently playing the game at the moment? We’re not out to win fans. We’re out to win Sam! Hup Donegal!
Dublin are the best outfit man, everyone knows that.
relax Darren Donegal are the biggest bullies in the Ulster playground nothing else
I’d like to announce that from today I will also no longer be speaking to the media.
The way that I’ve been blatantly ignored for decades without a single request for an interview displays a complete lack of respect for me.
I don’t think the rest of the country wants to read about Armagh anyway,I couldn’t care less about them,it’s their own supporters living in other parts of the country who are buying the national papers who can’t read about their own managements team and players views before the games are suffering,its this siege mentality that’s being taken too far.id just ignore it personally
Real cowboy, hard-man, anti-authority mentality in South Armagh, whatever about the rest of the county.. They should lighten up! In Galway people are much more laid back!
This will all come back to bite them in the ass. Any future sponsors will look at them & think they’re more hassle than they’re worth, no respectable business will want to be associated with a county that behaves likes this.
How will I sleep at night knowing that the media ban is too continue?
Who cares…
If the GAA had any guts they would have thrown them out of the championship after the Cavan fiasco
Let them talk to themselves for the week. Who cares ?
Legagh