Should the GAA re-write the disciplinary rules?
Image via X (@thegaeliccorner)There's been a call for a spectator who pushed a referee to the ground to be banned for life.
The incident happened after a Leinster Senior Football Championship match at O'Connor Park.
Tullamore were beaten by Summerhill yesterday, and referee Barry Tiernan was shoved by a spectator who entered the field.
Tiernan was surrounded by Tullamore players before then being surrounded by stewards as he made his way off the pitch.
Tullamore fan pushes ref to the ground after Tullamore’s defeat against Summerhill in the first round of the Leinster Senior Football Championship.
pic.twitter.com/ZQeavznRwe— The Gaelic Corner (@thegaeliccorner) October 22, 2023
Rory Hickey, a former inter-county referee, thinks Jarlath Burns, who is the president elect of the GAA, has to re-write the disciplinary rules for the association:
"That guy should receive a lifetime ban, he really really should. He should be let into no GAA grounds ever ever again. And if you start as if you mean to go on and I really hope that Mr Burns has a right crack at this. It's only then that you begin to eliminate this."
