O’Neill: Cut out the nonsense

GAA President Liam O’Neill has condemned the unruly scenes at the start of Sunday’s All-Ireland SHC semi-final between Kilkenny andTipperary.

The game was delayed early on as a group of players became embroiled in a melee at the Hill 16 end, and while Kilkenny manager Brian Codydownplayed the scenes after the match, saying “I wouldn’t say it boiled over. It was just the usual bit of pushing and shoving and stuff like that... It was just good manly stuff,” O’Neill was clearly unhappy with the fracas at GAA headquarters.

However the president said yesterday that such incidents “doesn’t benefit the game in any way” and, significantly, O’Neill added that if there were a repetition of such scenes then that “will have serious implications” for those involved.