When toil and trouble bubble over

The Meath controversy is the latest episode of turmoil in the GAA world. Brendan O'Brien recalls troubled times over the past five years.

TOMMY CARR gets the bullet: 2001-2002.

Tommy Carr must have felt fairly secure after the 2001 championship. His Dublin side had run Kerry to a replay in the All-Ireland quarter-final and county chairman John Bailey had publicly backed the former army man to serve the second year of his two-year term.