He wasn’t given sufficient time to prepare for his appeal is the reason he got off
And therefore it’s impossible to suspend a player if his team has another match a week after a sending-off incident.
It is now anyway. As the DRA is a separate, legal entity i believe they have now set a precedent
The chaps involved in the DRA are all judges. solicitors etc and look at the matter as if it were a court of law. Very very few GAA suspensions would stand up to this sort of scrutiny. It’s ridiculous.
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What was Joe Brolly on about before the match? He appeared to be saying that Connolly had the right to defend himself from Keegan or something?
Its the equivalent of the court of arbitration for sport I think isn’t it? If the DRA didn’t exist then you’d have suspension appeals going in front of the high court which could result in games being delayed apparently.
The DRA is suppose to solve all this process which I suppose it does but it just shows up how many holes are in the GAA rules.
prodeudural unfairness as opposed to substantive unfairness should not be a reason to overturn a suspension. They need to change the rules.
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He was saying that if a similar case came up in district court, whereby you were dragged to the ground and ended up striking the agressor you would get off, and it probably wouldn’t even have made it to court.
For an intelligent man that is a completely spurious and silly argument. If two grown men were fighting on a street wearing knee socks and shorts it would be dealt with as a mental health issue
Perhaps the GAA could go down the mental illness road and have players suspended for their own and others’ protection for being temporarily insane? Seems as plausible a way as any of making a suspension stick at this stage.
John Mullane was a right mug to accept his suspension that time.
Decency, honesty and accountability are not traits needed in the GAA’s disciplinary process.
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I’d like to see Mullane lead a new GAA Ethics Committee, similar to FIFA’s. I think it could be very effective.
I agree with Jim McGuinness that Seamus O’Shea should not have been black carded. Yellow would have sufficed.
Arguable that Mayo got a short term benefit as Andy Moran made the goal but it cost Mayo in the long run.
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It’s not spurious at all. He wasn’t saying it was right. In the context of who makes up the DRA it’s very relevant.
I know time to appeal seems to be the dominant factor but I think that’s related to the difficulty in getting something passed the DRA in the first place. Everything needs to be watertight which puts pressure on the GAA officials in the first place and probably impacts on their ability to communicate with players in time for them to reasonably make an appeal.
superb. suitable attire is the solution.
Do Dublin see Aiden O Shea as a weak link? they targeted him in 2013 when he was odds on for footballer of the year and he was ran ragged in final by dubs midfield. Again he arrived with a huge season under his belt and the most dangerous inside forward on earth on the back of destroying Donegal with his one goal return. Philip macmahon was dashing forward at will to set up Dublin attacks. As they say in Kerry - Hammer the hammer
The DRA’S reasoning for allowing Connolly off based on the fact that he had insufficient time to prepare his appeal is bullshit.
The GAA’s disciplinary procedures clearly state that if an appeal cannot be properly convened in time prior to a game that the appellant may play in, said game should be deferred.
Obviously, Croke Park reckon that’s fine when applied to the cubs who they’re indifferent about, but weren’t prepared to enforce their own rules when Dublin and a big payday were involved.
Then they go out and select Hugh O’Flaherty to chair the DRA hearing. A fucker who got the road as a High Court judge, along with Cyril Kelly from the Circuit Court, for prematurely freeing a drunken killer from prison in 1998-99. Anybody remember the Philip Sheedy case?
Farcical state of affairs.
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You left “Dublin based” out of that.
Professor Jack Anderson, Secretary, GAA’s Disputes Resolution Authority, School of Law, Queen’s University, 27-30 University Square, Belfast, BT7 1NN, N. Ireland, Co. Antrim
Not Dublin based
We all know that the chair of the group is as firmly Dublin establishment as it is possible to get.