Originally posted by Stand Up And Fight:
ÉIRE Óg’s quest for senior honours ended in ignominy and disgrace in Dr. Cullen Park on Sunday evening.

In an extraordinary few minutes inter-county player Eric McCormack appeared to make an attempt to head butt sideline official Martin Murphy and then, having being red carded by Pat Kehoe, raised his hands to the official once more.

It was almost the last act of the game and immediately afterwards a number of Éire Óg panel members wrestled with each other while select  or Jimmy Dooley was verbally abused by one of his own players.

It was bizarre. There hadn’t been a hint of rancour up to this. Long afterwards with Dr Cullen Park almost deserted Dooley faced up to the bitter facts.

“We obviously had a problem with discipline and we let ourselves down on the night,” he said.

“I wouldn’t focus on one individual because as a club we would all be disappointed. We would have let each other down and let football down in general at the end. Our discipline failed and we all have to take responsibility for that.”

His words will not go down well over in Teach Asca but it was apparent to all that the kingpins of Carlow football have fallen from grace. Dooley didn’t want to dwell on specific incidents.

“As a club we would be very disappointed about tonight. The last few minutes, I wouldn’t like to focus too much upon them. What happened say with the linesman I don’t think Eric hit him or anything.

“Players shouldn’t be getting involved with linemen at any level. Verbally or anything else. He got involved and he shouldn’t have got involved,” he stated.

Dooley was remorseful afterwards.

“We have to call a spade a spade. We have a lot of hard work to do. We have to pull together and face up to facts that we left ourselves down.”

This message has been edited - 10-sep-2010 @ 18:36

Originally posted by Stand Up And Fight:
Gah Violence - A new low?

Originally posted by BlackandWhite1976:
ah away with you ,twas handbags, i wouldn`t like to have you in a jury! he roundhouse kicked him, couldn`t have got much power there - over the top from behind. ive seen worse in local games at home . did you watch the video right through? he got up rubbing the back of his head and walked away like you would after the aul man gave you a clip after laughing during the rosary.

try this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc9VY7BKKCw&feature=related

Originally posted by MalbayMaster:
However bad any of the GAA violence is, it is pale in comparison to this snippet from the garrison game. If the fella in the orange bib did what he did at 2:34 in the street he`d be put in jail for over 5 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JcjvcJBRiE

This message has been edited - 10-sep-2010 @ 19:50

Originally posted by Stand Up And Fight:
More shameful Gah carry on reported in today`s papers

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THE Dublin county board will investigate claims that a football referee was verbally abused and spat at during angry scenes following a club championship match on Wednesday night.

Trouble erupted after St Peregrine`s overhauled St Anne`s, 1-10 to 0-12, courtesy of a last-gasp penalty that decided their Evening Herald Dublin SFC clash at Newcastle.

Dublin GAA chairman Gerry Harrington has promised that the county board`s CCC "will invesitigate any breach of rule or indiscipline by any member of the GAA" upon receipt of the report of match referee Philip Fitzsimons.

"I do understand there were some unsavoury incidents after the game," Harrington told the Herald. "I do understand that the referee was verbally abused and was spat at.

"You can take it that the CCC will investigate the incidents, and any breach of rule or indiscipline will be dealt with severely.

"We in Dublin will not allow incidents like that to tarnish our games and we will deal with them severely, believe you me," the Dublin chief concluded.

St Peregrine`s booked their place in the next round, against UCD in O`Toole Park next Sunday, after Stuart Lowndes converted the all-important penalty deep in stoppage time.

Originally posted by arock:
Your like the caped crusader, single handedly reporting evil.

This message has been edited - 10-sep-2010 @ 23:07

Originally posted by deiseach:

If by `caped crusader. you mean he wears his Y-fronts on the outside then I imagine you are right

Originally posted by deiseach:

If by `caped crusader` you mean he wears his Y-fronts on the outside then I imagine you are right

Originally posted by JohnMcCain:

GAA players need to take lessons from these guys.
Any mention of this in todays papers?

Originally posted by Stand Up And Fight:
All hell broke loose at the end of what had been a competitive, but clean clash in Pearses Park, Arklow between Glenealy and Bray Emmetts on Saturday.

A late pull by a Bray Emmetts player on a Glenealy man sparked a mass ruckus as players from both sides got involved.

As the referee tried to regain control, the fighting then spread to the sideline, with officials in both dug-outs getting involved.

Glenealy won the game comfortably, 2-19 to 0-8, with Leighton Glynn bagging nine points for the victors.