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Eye gouging to my mind goes beyond a disciplinary matter. It is a criminal matter and should be dealt with as such. Shocking and I actually was initially hoping for Armagh to win.

Dark arts? Here you go, what I observed at the game late on all late on:
16 players on the pitch twice necessitating stoppages
overplaying of injuries, serious hand waving from medics...
goalie with cramp (a first in all my years watching many sports)
goalies tee being thrown 20 yards to one side by a player

None serious but just too much of it.
The game is over Tyrone won so onwards
to the senior championship...

As a Tipp man at the game I thought Tyrone just about shaded it. They learnt from first half mistakes when they took a lot of wrong options with a lot of speculative shots. They drove through the middle in the second half and took their chances that came from this well. I did think the antics in the last 5 minutes weren't needed. I obversed 16 players on the pitch, overplaying of injuries, goalie with cramp (a first in all my years watching many sports) and the goalies tee being thrown 20 yards to one side. Like I said marginally the better side, didn't need to do it but perhaps that's the way the game has gone. I suspect it isn't unique to Tyrone or Gaelic football. I was reading about one of the Irish rugby players from the recent past who was one of the go to guys to feign an injury at the scrum for whatever reason. That was ok though as he was one of ours...