Thursday 27 March 2008

Three wise monkeys no way forward

Nickey Brennan has made some of the right noises about the issue of discipline within the GAA this week when he said that the Association would deal with the alleged head butting of Monaghan's Tommy Freeman as well as the incident in Castlebar.
Brennan said however, that the Dublin county board would not be compelled to name the alleged offender, in that he is playing it by the book.
However, I would like Brennan to go a little bit further and say that he thinks that the Dublin county board have a duty to name the offender if indeed that individual is any way connected to the county's management team.
It's not good enough for Dublin to adopt the stance of the three wise monkeys if indeed one of their management team was in anyway involved in such an incident.
To remain silent on this issue would send out all the wrong signals that thuggish behaviour can be condoned within the GAA.
I hope that the Dublin board do co-operate fully with any inquiry and that if anyone connected to the Dublin set-up is anyway involved in this incident that they will deal with him first in a manner, which leaves Central Council with nothing to do other than rubber stamp their action.

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