GAA to rule on card crux

THE chairman of Croke Park’s GAC, Tony O’Keeffe, has pledged to act on a bizarre rules anomaly which again surfaced in last Saturday’s All-Ireland qualifier between Roscommon and Kildare.

The inconsistency surrounds the sendings-off in normal and extra-time of Roscommon midfielder Séamus O'Neill and Kildare attacker Tadgh Fennin.

O'Neill was sent off for a second yellow card in the second half of the game, but whereas Roscommon were permitted to return to a full complement of 15 players for extra-time on the basis that it is considered a "different game" in GAA rules, the yellow card picked up by Fennin in normal time was carried over into extra-time i.e. it was considered the same game. Fennin was shown a second yellow by referee Michael Collins in extra time, and was sent off.