Referee knocked out after women’s football match

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GAA administrators in Tyrone have ordered an inquiry after a referee and a senior county official were knocked unconscious when violence flared at the end of a women’s football final.

Simon Brady, 43, was attacked by a spectator as he checked his score card after St Macartan’s of Augher defeated Carrickmore by scoring a winning point in the final stages of the match in Beragh.