What happened is common assault the Gardai should be called in.The GAA cannot prosecute criminal behaviour.

easiest thing in the world to fix! there are 7 officals watching a game (ref / linesmen / umpires). if 2 players have an altercation it should be reported and they should be warned or yellow carded. if anyone else gets involved then they should be immediately given a yellow or red card – if the whole team get involved then they should all be sent off – yes it would be a farce if it came to this – but there can no longer be protection for players who think that one in – all in is a protection for them!

Wouldn’t be like a Tyrone/ northern team to be a bit heavy handed now would it in order to win a match!!!!

Getting back to yesterday. Dromid accept they lost the sporting game. The Gaa needs to act on the nonplaying club members and supports who got involved. Simple to ban all Tyrone teams supporters from croke park for final and ban the subs and managment from pitchside and stand. Let them in dressing room.

Northern Ireland teams by and large seem to take pride in being bullies. My own club was playing in an u14 game in Antrim a few years ago and the abuse both verbal and physical they received at the hands of kids of their own age was shocking. One favourite way of intimidating players was to grab their “privates”. This was widespread over the field and because the ref was from the north as well he turned a blind eye. Yet when one of our players lost it and retaliated he was red carded straight away. It seems the kids are trained from an early age that it is winning that counts – never mind how. And croke park are powerless when it comes down to it – the ulster council are a law unto themselves.

ok then laws…..

*shakes head*

rugby people

This is comming a long time. Was at a game at the same stage of this comp a few years back. it was going the same way but kerry players stood up to thugs

Thug behaviour exists in GAA for 2 reasons;
- it is tolerated by the officials;
Referees are not supported by officialdom in their decisions

- it is ‘encouraged’ from a young age on the sideline by parents and coaches ;

I coach and referee rugby and from 6 yrs of age the children are taught respect for players, coaches and referees. There is zero tolerance

This is an absolute disgrace as of the GAA typical saying nothing major happened surely the Kerry players were targeted, appalling to bring youngsters to this sort of animalisc behavior, and this sort of behavior from northern teams time after time, Come to set an example and trow thhem out or ban northern team from club competitions.

I knew as soon as I read this story that the rugby crowd would jump in and start moralising and preaching and I was bang on. If rugby wasn’t played at such a small level across the country then you can be guaranteed we would be hearing more stories of eye-gouging, stamping on heads, etc.

The GAA has almost become a victim of its own success in that there are a staggering number of games played at local level across the country every weekend. That can never excuse this kind of brutal thuggery but when you have so many games being played in a physically hard-hitting sport like Gaelic football, there is always the potential for a few thugs to leave their mark.

While it’s only right and proper that the Gardai are involved in this matter, it’s also time for the GAA to really send a message and make an example out of Tyrone.

Tyrone teams never let foot-ball get in the way of a good brawl!

The Dubs started it all !

No need to tar every northern club with the same brush. There are plenty of counties all over Ireland with records of this type of incident.

Need to see the video

Thuggery/ Brawling exists in every sport. Rugby and Soccer included so get off your high horses there. The key is how the governing body reacts. The GAA could do with coming down hard on this but to suggest it is a GAA only problem stinks of bias. I see more unpunished punches thrown in rugby than in GAA to be honest. In soccer it is more mouthing off continuously. GAA has the odd brawl but it is the most popular sport in Ireland so more games means more chance of this type of thing happening. You dont hear about it in club rugby games because hardly anyone plays rugby!

i disagree apparently it was just handbags

This is another example of the quote
“rugby is a ruffians game played by gentlemen soccer is a gentlemans game played by ruffians and g a a is a ruffians game played by ruffians”
A normal day out for the hardy bucks and this is why g a a football NOT hurling attracts the ruffian culture

Was little more than handbags that you would get every weekend up and down the country with very few real punches thrown…of course noone wants to see these minor scuffles at any games, It begins to look like sour grapes from a Kerry side which were comprehensively beaten in the end by a well drilled Derrytresk team making their first appearance at this level. This one minute aside, well done to the Derrytresk men and good luck in the final…As for our more sectarian Kerry posters above who bring it down to the “Doirty Northerners” level as usual…cop yerself on…Tyrone have played the best brand of attacking and defensive football consistantly over the last 10 years in the All Ireland series and to assuage that they are all thugs who only win matches through intimidation is only showing you for the begrudgers when you lose that you obviously must be…

Bring back Judge Nealon
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/GAA+STAR+PAYS+pounds+15K+FOR+KICKING+PLAYER+IN+HEAD%3B+Thug+gets+5yr…-a0138254247

This is a general comment as I didn’t see the footage in question but I have always been disgusted by the GAAs apparent unwilligness to deal with these events properly.

When a scuffle breaks out the two players involved should obviously be yellow carded but the third (& subsequent) player(s) into the fight should be red carded immediately and banned! It’s the players diving in afterwards that make it a brawl. And, imo, any teams involved in mass brawls should be kicked out of the competition and banned for a year.

Any spectators involved should be reported to the Gardaí for assault.

The only way to stamp this sort of thing out is to deal with it very severely. They bring shame on our fine sports.

@ENNOMATIC
Just another small matter there are no such thing as rules in rugby there are laws so i would suggest a little research before you bother to comment.

no respect for anything in the gaa

have taken my kids out of local gaa following the same kind of thing week in week out in their games

ironic that it is kerry senior footballers who have been guilty of exaclty this kind of behaviour over the last few years