Fogarty Forum: Hurling made to wear ill-fitting football hand-me-down

The HDC was too quick to endorse football’s 20m free for dissent from the sidelines.

Thomas Walsh shows Kilkenny's Ivan Bolger a black card. Pic: Inpho

As sure as TJ Reid will surpass Patrick Horgan as hurling’s top scorer this summer, the black card was going to be extended to hurling.

Voted in for Gaelic football at Congress in 2013, GAA president Liam O’Neill knew it was only a matter of time before something similar was going to be introduced to the other code.