Sean Walsh: Rules say simulation a yellow card offence

The GAA’s national referees development committee chairman Sean Walsh has stressed that, according to the rulebook, simulation is a yellow card offence.

As Tiernan McCann prepared his case for tomorrow night’s Central Hearings Committee meeting to have a proposed eight-week disrepute charge dropped — arising from his feigning in Tyrone’s All-Ireland quarter-final — to clear him to play against Kerry in Sunday’s semi-final, Walsh said refs have been informed such an act warrants a yellow card.

The former Kerry and Munster chairman said: “It would be very wrong for me to comment, particularly on that one, because it is a disciplinary situation.” However, he said: “It [feigning] is covered with a yellow card in the general rules.”