A rule book with bite

When GAA Director General Páraic Duffy wrote in his annual report that the biting incident during Donegal and Dublin’s league game in April was one of the year’s lows he could not have anticipated the reaction that was to follow.

Describing the incident as “disgusting and shocking” and “reprehensible” that no one could be held to account for what happened he blamed the counties for failing to co-operate with the investigation.

Just days after it was published Dublin footballer Jason Whelan accepted an eight-week ban imposed by the Leinster Council’s Competition Controls Committee for “inflicting injury recklessly” on a DCU opponent in an O’Byrne Cup game.