‘You are treated like you are a criminal in the GAA world’

Dublin’s two-time All-Star Kieran Duff says he felt treated like “a criminal in the GAA world” following the ill-tempered 1983 All-Ireland final. Duff was sent off for kicking Galway’s Pat O’Neill and despite both players insisting the Dublin forward never made contact with his head the Dubliner was handed a 12-month suspension.

“It looked like I actually kicked him in the head. But he said himself afterwards that I made no contact whatever, and if I did make contact, it was with his arm or shoulder. It was the crowd’s reaction, I think, what done me.”