GAA chiefs look set to investigate ugly clashes in yesterday’s Allianz Football League Division 2 game between Monaghan and Kildare at Clones.
Referee Joe McQuillan red carded Kildare defender Brian Flanagan and booked another three players, Flanagan’s team-mate Pádraig O’Neill, and Monaghan’s Dick Clerkin and Dessie Mone.
Kildare boss Kieran McGeeney said: "People don’t want to be seen to be backing down."
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This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Monday, February 13, 2012