Diving to be black or red card offence

Next year’s Congress is likely to vote on a motion upgrading a dive from a yellow card to a black or red card offence in the wake of the Tiernan McCann case.

Either or both the Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) and the standing playing rules committee will put forward a proposal calling for a harsher penalty. The news comes in the wake of Tyrone’s McCann having his proposed eight-week ban for bringing the game into disrepute thrown out by the Central Hearings Committee (CHC) in Croke Park in the early hours of yesterday morning.

In a press release from the GAA yesterday, the CHC found McCann should not have faced such a penalty but instead should have been issued with a yellow card by referee Marty Duffy.