Itās amazing how Limerick lads suddenly pretend to have no idea what other people are talking about when they need to deny and/or defend criminal behaviour by Limerick hurlers.
Very hard to Kiely to make the demands on Hayes that he has and then abandon him after he lost the head one night and smashed a lad head in in a bout of rage. Wouldnt be much for a bond
I wouldnāt know John kiely at all but I did randomly bump into him and a number of the players socialising before Christmas.
Paul kinnerk was there too.
I knew one of the players a little and was chatting away to him. Watching on from the outside youād think kiely was one the players.
It told me two things. Theyāve a savage bond altogether but when these lads start to move on I expect kiely to go too. He isnāt a Cody or Mickey Harte who seemed stand offish with the players.
Iād have huge time for Kiely and would defend his record in the Abbey to the last when heās got all kinds of stick for it but heās got this badly wrong and i think will regret it big time.
Youāre a very even handed and fair poster, and Iād always take your opinion seriously. However in this case, excusing it as a bad decision seems to be underestimating the incident in extremis.
Iād generally equate a bad decision as a heat of the moment type fight, you know an exchange of digs, you deck someone in a fight and itās done. Now correct me if Iām wrong, but in this case, did this hurling chap Kyle Hayes, not say to the victim (s) ādo you not know who I amā then beat the shit out of him IN the nightclub, then waited outside and beat the shit out of them OUTSIDE the nightclub? Then at a later point one of his party kicked the victim in the head while he lay on the ground?
The Guards said it was this Kyle Hyes who did the kicking but turned out to be a mistaken identity. Seems more than a ābad decisionā when laying out the series of events