Delaney slams disciplinary code

MICHAEL DELANEY has never been afraid to speak his mind. As far back as 1991, when it would have been a taboo subject for a leading GAA official, the Leinster Council Secretary suggested that consideration should be given to renting out Croke Park for rugby and soccer games.

Now, in his current report, he takes a swipe at new disciplinary procedures recently announced, expressing amazement the new code has drastically reduced the minimum suspensions in many instances.

“With all the publicity in the past year about indiscipline in games, brawls in club and county matches, abuse of referees and match officials and an apparent breakdown of law and order in the association, one would have been forgiven for thinking that stringent measures would be introduced to stamp out, or at least discourage, these indiscretions,’’ he writes.