Johnny Glynn set to miss Ardrahan’s Galway senior hurling preliminary quarter-final as one-match ban upheld

A general view of a yellow sliotar. Photo by Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Johnny Glynn is set to miss Ardrahan’s Galway senior hurling preliminary quarter-final this weekend after his one-match ban was upheld.

Ardrahan are due to face Clarinbridge in their knock-out game this Saturday but Glynn is set to miss the clash having initially been handed a retrospective suspension by the county’s competitions control committee.

The 30-year-old contested the punishment but the hearings committee endorsed the sanction.

Glynn and Darren Morrissey were booked following an incident before half-time in the Ardrahan-Sarsfields final round Group 4 game in Ballinasloe’s Duggan Park. However, TG4 footage showed Glynn holding Morrissey’s neck on the ground as the Sarsfields defender struggled.

Although referee Conor Quinlan took action, the county’s CCC were empowered to take action under Rule 7.3 (e) of the GAA’s Official Guide Part which states: “The Competitions Control Committee may make a written Request for Clarification from a Referee: (1) where there is any ambiguity in his Report, or (2) where the Competitions Control Committee is in the course of investigating a possible Infraction not stated in his Report (even if the incident itself is disclosed).”

Glynn is now entitled to take his case to the county’s appeals committee in a bid to be freed up to play the match in Pearse Stadium at the weekend.

Meanwhile, it has been confirmed Galway adult football championship groups will be decided by the old score difference rule should three or more teams finish on the same number of points.

The hurling championships had operated under the new rule as the competition regulations had been adopted after Congress when the new rule came in whereas the football parameters had been agreed prior to it.

In the senior football championship’s Group 1, Moycullen lead on eight points followed by St James and Milltown on six and Annaghdown on four. In Group 2, Corofin are table-toppers but just one point separates second-placed Barna from Oughterard in fifth position, while the two points divides the top four teams in the five-club Group 3.

Elsewhere, Sixmilebridge have opted not to apply to the Disputes Resolution Authority about their score difference issue in the Clare senior hurling championship.

The club lost out to Crusheen for second place based on the new rule and had brought their case to the Munster Council’s hearings committee last week but it was rejected.

Between them the winners of the last eight Clare SHCs, Sixmilebridge now face Ballyea in a senior B semi-final.