Brothers’ dispute with GAA settled

A NEW vote is to taken by the Kerry County GAA Committee following a settlement in the action by two schoolboys who claimed they might have to give up sport altogether because the GAA would not let them play football for the club they love.

Under the settlement in the High Court yesterday, a vote is to be taken at a meeting on July 11 on whether brothers Padraic O’Sullivan, 14, and Colin, 8, should be given a derogation from a GAA rule which requires that people can only play for the parish they live in.

Mr Justice Paul Gilligan, who had earlier urged the parties to consider mediation, congratulated them on the agreement and said he fully accepted there were important principles involved but he was glad the parties had stepped back from proceeding with litigation in the High Court.