“We should be really careful not to obviously intervene.” GAA director general Tom Ryan has defended the GAA’s handling of the Kilmacud Crokes and Glen Watty Graham’s All-Ireland final replay debate. Kilamcud Crokes had two too many players on the field in the dying minutes of the match, including one who was standing on the […]

3 years ago

Kilmacud Crokes are set to launch a counter-objection to the GAA over the All-Ireland senior club football final. The game had an extremely controversial finish on Sunday when Crokes ended the day with too many players on the pitch. Glen have since lodged an objection to the association, on the basis of a breach of […]

3 years ago

Andy McEntee responds with a laugh. “100% correct,” he says, when asked if the saga he and Robbie Brennan went through in 2005 was similar to what Watty Grahams Glen and Kilmacud Crokes are going through now. McEntee and Brennan won a county senior title that year, as St Peter’s Dunboyne team-mates, but the cup […]

3 years ago

Watty Grahams Glen were given a get-out-of-jail-card and, as things stand, it looks like they’re going to play it. Over to you, members of the CCCC. Glen are well-entitled to play it, it’s their card to play, but whatever way you look at it, whether you’re in or out, neutral or biased, betting or hedging […]

3 years ago

Brolly is on the case. After the late drama in Sunday’s All-Ireland club football final between Kilmacud Crokes and Watty Graham’s Glen, Joe Brolly feels that the ‘honourable course’ is that the game will be replayed. Rule 6.44 (b) (i) was breached in the dying moments of the game when the Dublin champions defended Glen’s […]

3 years ago

Watty Grahams Glen chairman Barry Slowey has confirmed that his club will seek clarification from the GAA over the late drama that unfolded in Croke Park in the All-Ireland club football final. The drama of course being the fact that Kilmacud Crokes defended Glen’s last attack with sixteen players, as you will see in the […]

3 years ago