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[6. Kieran Martin (Westmeath)]

1. Paul Durcan (Donegal)
2. Cathal McCarron (Tyrone)
3. Ronan McNamee (Tyrone)
4. Philly McMahon (Dublin)
5. Ryan McHugh (Donegal)
6. Kieran Martin (Westmeath)
7. Jack McCaffrey (Dublin)
8. Anthony Maher (Kerry)
9. Mattie Donnelly (Tyrone)
10. Diarmuid O'Connor (Mayo)
11. Ciaran Kilkenny (Dublin)
12. Stephen O'Brien (Kerry)
13. Conor McManus (Monaghan)
14. Paddy Andrews (Dublin)
15. Bernard Brogan (Dublin)

POTY:
1. Brogan
2. McManus
3. McCaffrey

You serious?

Name me one standout 6 in this year's championship. There is none. Weakest position of the lot. Martin may not have played at 6 most of the time but deserves an All-Star more than anybody else who has played in that jersey.

Martin never played centre-back in any of the games I saw him in.

Should have watched a bit closer, then. He played centre back in the first half against Meath before moving up.

As I said there is no standout 6. Cian O'Sullivan has been the best conventional 6 but Martin deserves an All-Star more.

[6. Kieran Martin (Westmeath)]

1. Paul Durcan (Donegal)
2. Cathal McCarron (Tyrone)
3. Ronan McNamee (Tyrone)
4. Philly McMahon (Dublin)
5. Ryan McHugh (Donegal)
6. Kieran Martin (Westmeath)
7. Jack McCaffrey (Dublin)
8. Anthony Maher (Kerry)
9. Mattie Donnelly (Tyrone)
10. Diarmuid O'Connor (Mayo)
11. Ciaran Kilkenny (Dublin)
12. Stephen O'Brien (Kerry)
13. Conor McManus (Monaghan)
14. Paddy Andrews (Dublin)
15. Bernard Brogan (Dublin)

POTY:
1. Brogan
2. McManus
3. McCaffrey

You serious?

Name me one standout 6 in this year's championship. There is none. Weakest position of the lot. Martin may not have played at 6 most of the time but deserves an All-Star more than anybody else who has played in that jersey.

1. Paul Durcan (Donegal)
2. Cathal McCarron (Tyrone)
3. Ronan McNamee (Tyrone)
4. Philly McMahon (Dublin)
5. Ryan McHugh (Donegal)
6. Kieran Martin (Westmeath)
7. Jack McCaffrey (Dublin)
8. Anthony Maher (Kerry)
9. Mattie Donnelly (Tyrone)
10. Diarmuid O'Connor (Mayo)
11. Ciaran Kilkenny (Dublin)
12. Stephen O'Brien (Kerry)
13. Conor McManus (Monaghan)
14. Paddy Andrews (Dublin)
15. Bernard Brogan (Dublin)

POTY:
1. Brogan
2. McManus
3. McCaffrey

Who cares anymore?
how can underage mentors try to instill discipline on hard to manage teens when they can point to this. For an association that looked down their noses are soccer for years this is farcical. I give up.
but sure who cares the money is coming in and a horde will be delirious tonight

Exactly. And why would parents want kids to choose a sport where the example from the top is to stand for nothing but winning at all costs? Not a shred of integrity left.

Rugby is now the first choice for many kids.

Nonsense. This so called drift to Rugby is all agenda driven.

Soccer and Gaelic Football are still the kings in Irish sport.

To quote Jerry Kiernan, nobody plays rugby.

It's gonna get nasty today. Very nasty, I fear.

Some players may well be needing their jaw wired up after it.

The two black card decisions involving McNamee and Enright were blatantly wrong. But the second penalty decision was the one that decided the match. A penalty all day long.

Kerry got away with it big time today.

Morgan was like an extra player for them in that second half. Disastrous performance.

Kerry's defence will be destroyed in the final. It's there for the taking.

[Breaking: Tiernan McCann found innocent after chocolate biscuit mutiny ends GAA disciplinary hearing]

Breaking: Tiernan McCann found innocent after chocolate biscuit mutiny ends GAA disciplinary hearing

Tyrone's Tiernan McCann has finally had his eight week ban for bringing the GAA into disrepute overturned after a dramatic night of events at Croke Park.

The Central Hearings Committee (CHC) finally reached a decision at around 1am, after running out of chocolate digestive biscuits.

Twitter had gone into overdrive nearly three hours previously after rumours of McCann's ban being overturned leaked out, but these reports proved premature, due to what was at that point still a well stocked cupboard.

Mayo's Kevin Keane had much earlier had his red card against Donegal downgraded to a yellow in a decision that took less than 30 seconds, but McCann's hearing was to prove much more lengthy.

"There was no way we were letting that diving Nordie gobshite out of here without making him wait for a long time", said Fintan Crummy, Chairman of the CHC. "The decision was obviously a formality, but there was loads of lovely finger food available and the committee members decided it'd be a sin to let it go to waste. When we polished that off we tucked into the biscuits. They were lovely. Chocolate digestives, not the miserable Irish-made ones now, the proper McVities ones. Great with a pot of tea."

Eyewitnesses said the committee members sat dunking biscuits in tea and laughing at McCann for over three hours while the hearing took place.

At one point McCann asked if he could have a biscuit only to be met with a frosty response from committee Chairman Crummy, followed by loud laughter from the rest of the committee.

"The cheeky bollix actually asked us for a biscuit", said another committee member, on condition of anonymity. "I said to him, "you're bloody lucky you'll be walking out of here a free man tomorrow, and it will be tomorrow, mark my words."

"We could have gone on until tomorrow morning if we had to", continued the committee member. "The lads were all enjoying the biccies immensely. But we ran out of them at about 1am. We did think of sending somebody out to get more, and a couple of packets of fags while we were at it, but the nearest 24 hour shop is way up on Dorset Street, and that's a bit of a trek at this time of night, so we just said, "f**k that, we'll call it a night. Innocent." Twas probably the wise decision, the lads were f**king stuffed, actually."

But Crummy was still upbeat as he left the hearing. "At least the greasy haired bollix will have to drive all the way back to Tyrone in the middle of the night. He won't sleep tonight, that's for sure."

I hear the Tyrone Rose goes down easy.

I think you know what he's talking about 

Soccer is not the problem ... its a small % of sh1tk1ckers who are predisposed to badness. The GAA is not the problem either

Soccer is always cited by these sorts of "true Gaels" when it has nothing to do with such incidents.

Discuss what apparently happened by all means, but leave out the petty references to soccer.

People who constantly feel the need to denigrate soccer when bad behaviour occurs at GAA matches simply need to grow up.

[This is also not soccer.]

Tipp fans fighting Galway fans on the Hill and in Quinn's after, it was violent enough, In particular in Quinns.

Can you behave yourselves please when you come to the capital. It is not the end of the disco in Nenagh or Galway city.

This is also not soccer.

Perhaps its a good idea to ban the sale of alcohol when some sets of fans come to Dublin.

I have seen this from Tipp fans a few times before, one match in particular when a fan was getting sick on the Hill and 3 fans thrown out for throwing digs on the Hill, alcohol influenced, the same match , final v KK a few years ago.

What has soccer to do with a GAA problem?