Waterford’s Walsh joins in condemnation of Rules ‘thuggery’

THE chairman of the West Waterford GAA Board last night joined the increasingly large number of people who want the International Rules series scrapped.

In his address to the board’s annual convention in Dungarvan, Paddy Walsh launched one of the strongest denunciations yet of what he called “a discredited series”, and said what they all saw on their television screens from Australia last October was “thuggery and violence masquerading as sport.”

Mr Walsh said the “naked assaults” perpetrated on the Irish players should be totally unacceptable to everyone in the GAA.