Diarmuid Connolly blames ‘RTÉ clown’ for black card rules

Dublin’s Diarmuid Connolly has attacked officials for constantly meddling with Gaelic football’s rules and implored them to simply leave well enough alone.

The talented forward let loose on the ‘Mark’ rule which comes into play on January 1, describing it as a ‘dead duck’ and also hit out at the controversial black card which he says simply isn’t needed.

The four-time All-Ireland winning play-maker claimed that the black card was only introduced in 2014 because an analyst “in an RTÉ studio decides to throw the toys out of the pram’.