O’Mahony should not be made a scapegoat

NOT FOR the first time this year, I find myself defending a Kerry footballer, but here goes anyway.

Earlier in the year the big demon was Paul Galvin, who, according to all the self righteous pulpiteers, should have accepted his six-month suspension for knocking the notebook from the referee’s hands and should not have gone through the GAA appeals process.

On the basis that Galvin’s suspension was excessive — twice what he should have been given — on the basis also that he was fully entitled to use the appeals process (what the hell is it there for otherwise?), I disagreed.