Kerry GAA chiefs adamant they acted properly

KERRY GAA officials are adamant that they have acted, ‘properly and fairly’ in their decision not to suspend inter-county captain Darragh O´ Sé.

The Ghaeltacht midfielder, red carded in a county championship game against Austin Stacks eight days ago, will be free for selection as the Kingdom prepare to meet Cork in the All Ireland SFC semi-final after the referee admitted in his report that he made a mistake. The match official’s report states that O´ Sé was guilty only of committing a late tackle on Austin Stack’s Brian Dennehy and not of purposefully striking the player.

The chairman of the Kerry General Purposes Committee, Teddy O’Sullivan, said that the matter was blatantly clearcut, as a result of that assertion: “The referee's report made my job and the job of GPC easy. In discussing the incident with his officials at half-time in the match between Austin Stacks and An Ghaeltacht, he realised that he had made a mistake. We are acting on the referee’s report.”