It’s time for the GAA to shut up the bigots and bigmouths

The GAA has a code of conduct. It also has rules to deal with the behaviour on Hill 16 two days ago, writes John Fogarty.

Surveying the field at the final whistle on Sunday, it was like Barry Kelly’s shrill had deactivated several Tipperary players as they fell to the ground. There, they were consoled by their Galway markers. As the pain of defeat brought Noel McGrath to his knees, Cathal Mannion sympathised. Galway are winners, that’s admirable in isolation, but that they were so gracious makes them even more laudable.

That magnanimous vista couldn’t have been more different to what some of the Galway following at the top of Hill 16 subjected Seamus Callanan to during the first half. A group saw fit to repeatedly abuse him with a vile chant concerning a rumour about his personal life that had spread earlier this summer.