Cooney: player discipline improving games

GAA President Christy Cooney has praised inter-county players for their positive response to the disciplinary rules in the championship this season.

Mr Cooney acknowledged the players’ contribution to the quality of games against the background of the Congress rejection of the recommendations aimed at ridding the games of serial offenders.

“Barring one or two possible exceptions, the absence of real rancour in our games so far this summer has provided us with plenty of food for thought – and most of it of the positive variety,’’ he wrote in his programme notes for yesterday’s matches at Croke Park.