Trying to make sense of the GAA rulebook

REPLAY?: Kilmacud Crokes' players celebrate after the AIB GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Club Championship Final. Pic: Daire Brennan/Sportsfile

For GAA fans, the association’s rule book is a bit like Ulysses. Most know of it. Many have never read. Few can interpret its real meaning.

Oddly, in the latest GAA controversy involving the All-Ireland senior club final between Glen and Kilmacud Crokes, the rule in question – 6.44 – is straightforward.