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I propose to leave the whole bloody thing alone. It's the least worst system. Sure if you were starting from scratch you wouldn't design it as it is now but we're not starting from scratch and I've no wish to see 130 years of tradition done away with by abolishing the provincial championships.

I like my provincial finals as they are, thank you.

Anybody who doesn't think this incident warrants a proper investigation by the GAA with, presumably, resulting suspensions,  is a contributor to the type of culture that leads to incidents like the Mark McGovern one. It's that simple.

[Parkinson made a fool of Gavin there.]

Parkinson made a fool of Gavin there.

The GAA really need to get to the bottom of all this and make examples of people. The wishes of the players involved should be irrelevant.

Otherwise it's a charter for neanderthal apes.

Gavin shouldnt have gave that interview to that sneering fool parkinson.

I see your make "examples of people" is really an investigation and banning of dublin players for the championship more like !!!!!!!!!!!

Nuts and bolts are Byrne is a mouth piece and got a few slaps......................Mill up and Dublin gave it back in spades....................Move on

I'm from Dublin, mate.

If you think it's acceptable that an incident where somebody ends up with serious injuries as the result of an assault can be simply brushed under the carpet, well, that's your prerogative.

The GAA should be investigating this and whoever gets banned, so be it. Sweeping it under the carpet has created a Streisand effect here.

If the wider media has a dig at the GAA over this kind of culture of accepting violence, well, they'll be quite right in doing so.

Parkinson made a fool of Gavin there.

The GAA really need to get to the bottom of all this and make examples of people. The wishes of the players involved should be irrelevant.

Otherwise it's a charter for neanderthal apes.

Strange how the woman who posted that online video about domestic violence yesterday gets such wide praise but the most important thing as far as some GAA people are concerned is to keep the identity of the offending Armagh player a secret at all costs.

Not a fair comparison. Neither Dublin nor Armagh have made any statement about this. It has leaked out through the Herald. There's not any detail about who started it, what the circumstances were or anything. And today the GAA are apparently saying they are *not* launching an investigation which is very strange.

The Gardai apparently didn't want to know about the incident with the woman, so I'd think it's quite a fair comparison. A man was named in the media  (or at least the information released made it extremely easy to find out his name) and this was widely praised.

Was the player you lot are trying to frame for this even on the field of play as I've heard his name mentioned and as far as I was concerned the fella is an injury doubt for Sunday and he didn't play in last Championship game so doubt he even lined out against the Dubs

If you mean McKeever, his is not the name I've read in connection with it.

Strange how the woman who posted that online video about domestic violence yesterday gets such wide praise but the most important thing as far as some GAA people are concerned is to keep the identity of the offending Armagh player a secret at all costs.

Anybody know what will happen as regards TV coverage of the Cork-Kerry replay?

As far as I know Sky have rights to two qualifiers being shown on July 18th which will be Fermanagh v Roscommon and Longford v Kildare.

Given that the Cork-Kerry replay is a 7pm start, you would think this means it's being lined up for live TV coverage. Sky, you would presume, will push to replace one of their scheduled live qualifier matches with live Cork-Kerry coverage.

However there appears to be a problem here on two fronts.

i) Sky do not appear to have rights to show a provincial final exclusively live.
ii) If RTE want to show the Cork-Kerry replay live, Sky will surely object given that their 7pm qualifier match would be upstaged by a far more attractive live match directly clashing with it on RTE.

Will the Cork-Kerry replay be shown live at all, one wonders? If Sky get the rights, there will be a Liveline furore over it given that every provincial final since 1998 has been shown live on free to air TV (the Clare-Waterford replay in 1998 was the last not to be shown live, from my memory). If it's not shown at all, there will be an even bigger Liveline furore.

Surely the obvious thing to do was to have it throw in at 2:30 or 3pm and have it live on RTE, thus avoiding a clash? Perhaps the match will be brought forward when this issue is considered?

A 7pm start in Killarney is also disastrous for anybody wanting to travel by train. Irish Rail, comically, is advertising "great value return fares" for this match, however the last train out of Killarney is 7:38pm.

I can't see any problems with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AntTKfRO5po

Kildare Offaly only had 5000, can't understand us not at least pushing for a home tie.

Looked a lot smaller than 5,000.

Kildare's "massive travelling support" certainly wasn't in evidence, anyway.

If capacity is 8,000, Longford should certainly be pushing for a home tie.

Mullingar only holds 11,000, sod all difference.

I'd love to know where the 11k in Mullingar fits in.

There's a four-tier stand behind one of the goals which doubles as the cereal shelves for the Dunnes Stores there.

I'd say the dalay to Monday has everything to do with Sky. The GAA should makevfixturesvto suit teams and fans and let Sky fit in with that.

Sky are going to show a game on 11/7. Not all the games are known yet. Waiting until Monday to see which match is not that bad a thing. But the GAA should just come out and say what they are doing.

Clare v Cork will be Sky's match.

Kildare Offaly only had 5000, can't understand us not at least pushing for a home tie.

Looked a lot smaller than 5,000.

Kildare's "massive travelling support" certainly wasn't in evidence, anyway.

If capacity is 8,000, Longford should certainly be pushing for a home tie.

Mullingar only holds 11,000, sod all difference.

Game will be in Mullingar at 7pm Saturday 11th July 2015.

Why not Longford?

Because the stands in Pearse Park are currently considered structurally unsafe by Croke Park.

Would have gone for Breffni myself.

A quick Google shows the capacity of Pearse Park is currently 8,000 even with a section cordoned off. If that is so, surely that's still enough for such a fixture?

Game will be in Mullingar at 7pm Saturday 11th July 2015.

Why not Longford?

As a matter of interest, when was the last time kerry lost a championship replay?

Not sure but they did lose the replay to Cork a few days after the three O'Se's father died - I'm rubbish at keeping track of which year was which - but that wasn't so long ago. I did see a stat a while back that Kerry have only been beaten in championship football in Kerry 9 times since 1928. Overall I'm struggling to think of many other replays Kerry have lost.

Cork beat them in replays in 1987, 2002, 2006 and 2009. Kerry beat Cork in replays in 1976, 2008 and 2010.

Westmeath have never played:

Roscommon
Leitrim

Cork
Waterford

Monaghan
Down
Armagh

Think that's correct. 100% win record against Connacht opposition.

Did Westmeath not play Down in the qualifiers recently?