Cork probe into “full-scale riot”

TROUBLE ahead for the Bride Rovers and Glen Rovers in Cork, after the mass brawl before half-time in their tempestuous Cork SHC clash in Páirc Ui Chaoimh yesterday.

A county board probe will begin within days, according to board officials last night.

In what was already a bad-tempered encounter, Glen Rovers midfielder Donal Cronin felled Bride Rovers defender Shane Kearney with a full-blooded and dangerous charge just before half-time. In fact, the match was already into the third minute of injury-time, and given the incident occurred in front of the tunnel, close to where both sets of subs and team officials were located, the prudent thing for referee Diarmuid Kirwan to have done may have been to blow the whistle for half-time, take the offending Lynch to one side and show him the red card he subsequently received, and get everyone off the pitch, giving tempers a chance to cool.