GAA president apologies for Armagh-Galway brawl

Larry McCarthy highlighted the need for players to be responsible

Larry McCarthy: 'While we have been criticised for what we should have done to prevent the occurrence, one wonders what responsibility the young men involved bear.' Picture:  Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile

GAA president Larry McCarthy has apologised on behalf of the association for the full-time brawl that marred last Sunday’s Armagh-Galway SFC quarter-final in Croke Park.

The ugly scenes at the end of the drawn game prompted the GAA's Central Competitions Comtrol Committee (CCCC) to retrospectively suspend four players, including a six-month ban for Armagh extended panel member Tiernan Kelly, and issue a €10,000 fine to each county.