Top official O’Neill urges disciplinary reform

LIAM O’NEILL, the leading candidate in the race to become the GAA’s next president, has called for sweeping changes to the Association’s disciplinary system which would help prevent a repeat of the embarrassing fallout from this year’s Leinster football final.

O’Neill admitted that the GAA’s rules and regulates meant that officials could not order a replay and left national and provincial chiefs with “egg on their faces”.

According to O’Neill, a former Leinster Council chairman, radical alterations to the disciplinary system would also speed up the process of dealing with suspensions and make the procedures more transparent.