Judge tells Clare referee 'the law is the law' - even for GAA participants

Garda Ken Butler told the court that there were a large number of complaints to gardaí about parking on the date

Contesting his parking prosecution the GAA referee told the judge that he had no choice in the matter but to park his car outside the club grounds on a grass margin. File photo: INPHO/James Crombie

A judge has told a GAA referee that there is no exemption from the law for important participants in GAA activities in this country.

At Ennis District Court, Judge Mary Larkin made her remark before convicting GAA underage referee, Kieran Harvey, for a parking offence outside the grounds of Ennis GAA club, Eire Og, last July.