After what was a cracking quarter-final between Galway and Armagh last weekend at Croke Park, it was an awful shame that the game will be remembered for all the wrong reasons. Today the GAA have handed out the bans for the players involved in the incident after the game.
Armagh’s Tiernan Kelly has been handed a six month ban it has to be done to be honest and could have been more, because a thing like eye gouging should have no place in any sport..
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6 months for Tiernan Kelly. By all accounts a very nice fella who lost the head. These things happen.
Feel terrible for him, life won't be the same again. Social media is toxic— Smaller Fish GAA (@SmallerFishGAA) July 1, 2022
The CCCC spent the week reviewing the fracas at the end of normal time in last weekend’s All Ireland Senior Football quarter-final.https://t.co/x80AsvfMOm
— RTÉ GAA (@RTEgaa) July 1, 2022
Another bottle job when it comes to handing out discipline in the GAA ..24 weeks for Tiernan Kelly is a disgrace as is no way a deterrent for other idiots
— tommy heatly (@GoonerGom) July 1, 2022
It’s rough for Tiernan Kelly and Armagh to be made an example of but I do hope that fellas, whoever they are, hopping barriers and seats to get in on a melee face similar consequences. A real ugly part of matches sometimes.
— Joanne O’ Riordan (@JoanneOR_Ox) July 1, 2022
📅24 week ban for Armagh’s Tiernan Kelly
🏐 1 match bans for Armagh’s Conor Turbitt & Blaine Hughes and Galway’s Cathal Sweeney
💶10k fine for each county board.
Details below from @LawlorDamian
https://t.co/GrXUzzpv9V— Damien O'Meara (@damien_omeara) July 1, 2022
Tiernan Kelly gets a 24 week ban, seems fair for trying to blind a guy #Gaa
— Rory o Hanlon – (@rohanloncomedy) July 1, 2022
With the punishment now handed out to all involved I hope that can be the end of it now.. feel bad for @Galway_GAA captain Sean Kelly and Our captain Aidan Nugent as there bans are upheld when they done nothing wrong. Sean misses the most important game next weekend, shocking
— Armagh Fans 🟠⚪️ (@ArmaghFans1889) July 1, 2022
It’s going to make for two cracking semi-finals between both Galway and Derry and Kerry vs Dublin, finally after months of nothing we are now starting to see some great games.