Brennan blasts ‘horrible attitude’ towards disciplinary codes

THE “horrible attitude” of GAA people challenging disciplinary decisions to the absolute limit was strongly criticised by GAA President Nickey Brennan yesterday, saying he had no doubt that any players sent off this weekend or next weekend would follow the same route as the Kerry captain Paul Galvin.

Brennan’s particular complaint was that the psyche within the Association was “not to accept that something was wrong, not to accept your punishment and go to the nth degree to get off”.

Interviewed by Paul Collins on Today FM’s ‘The GAA Show’, he stated: “People don’t accept punishment any more. They don’t accept that they do wrong. People are always coming up with excuses and it is simply not acceptable. I travel the length and breadth of the country and I am listening to parents and they are complimenting us on the manner in which we are dealing with discipline.