Conway: up to GAA to tackle Sunday Game clout

KERRY chairman Jerome Conway insists the influence exerted by RTÉ’s Sunday Game programme on disciplinary issues is a matter for the GAA to tackle at a national level and that the county’s focus must be on producing disciplined teams on the field of play.

Conway was speaking to delegates at last night’s Kerry county convention in Tralee and addressed the controversial issue that surfaced this season involving the flagship championship highlights programme. The Kerry senior footballers were hit by retrospective suspensions handed down to Tomás Ó Sé and Paul Galvin during the summer.

Conway is adamant the county must not get sidetracked by fears that the Sunday Game is exerting an overt influence on the suspensions being handed to inter-county players, but has called on the GAA ‘to exercise fair jurisdiction over all its games’.