'Disgusting, scandalous, shameful' - RTE GAA panel react to Croke Park brawl

"Disgusting, scandalous, shameful" - RTE GAA panel react to Croke Park brawl after full-time whistle between Armagh and Galway.

Striking and apparent eye-gouging occurred during the violent scenes

[emeldar]

In fairness Spillane was spot on . Disgraceful disgusting thuggery. The game was brilliant and I’m not a huge GAA fan but this behaviour is all too common at every level of the game

[johndoyle]

Before I talk about the positive side of the match. Without mentioning teams, this not the first time it happened. This was going on for a while and I agree with Pat Spillane, the GAA need to do something about this.
Back to the match between Galway Vs Armagh. What great match, no team deserved to lose this match. I thought it should have been a replay. Not a nice way to go out on penalties. But anyway well done to both teams.

[patrickoflaherty]

All for a bit of pushing and shoving down the tunnel but eye gouging when your not even on the panel is a cowardly move knew there'd be no consequence, should get a very long ban

[stephenmccaughley]

Haven't been in croke Park in 19 years and today I witnessed some brilliant football, atmosphere and all the fans enjoying an incredible game and that's what I will remember.

Let the football do the taking lads, if you want to box your in the wrong sport.

[pd]

Joyce showed his class stating penalties to decide was a disgrace. Armagh Thug who should not have been there to eye gouge needs a several year ban. Cowardly act, knew he wasn't involved in the match so any red card would not apply. Club and County should ban GAA will let it slide of course.

[EGC]

Spineless GAA management. It's very easily fixed. Any player fighting in the ground at any time gets an immediate 1 year ban. Do it again on return gets a lifetime ban. The thugs might think twice.

[JK_JK_JK_JK]

What happened after the match was anyone suspended?!?! 🤔🧐😕

[justy]

Ain't that fantastic viewing for young kids.
GAA would what to get serious in this at this day and age...

[patkawasaki]

The disciplinary element of the GAA has shown itself to be toothless with regard to this issue in the past, amd this is an example of reaping what you sow.
Proper bans, enforced and publicised, will send the message throughout Ireland. This is all too common at all levels of GAA.

[Bdoc]

People myself included have often talked the same shite we accuse Pat of, but boy does lhe ove his football, and he's 100% right here.

[jimbanda]

A Mayo man here, Ok the first game had everything you could possibly want... Dare I say an absolute epic, the Galway lead, the Armagh comeback, the heart stopping extra time, brilliant scores, and a monster leveller from Rian O'Neill.
Pat Spillane is rightly indignant at the next "play", too many riled up people heading for a bottleneck, the stadium is swamped with security and up to 200 Gardai inside, yet nobody has the foresight to form a secure line or divider screens 😡it's poor form and what is the health & safety officer doing all week.
Disgraceful behaviour by both sides, but without a doubt in my mind, the eye gouge was a sinister development and requires swift action, I'd look for a two year ban from all gaa grounds, buildings and PR events .
The insult then is when officials can't decide their arse from their elbow, and they send one of the stars of the day off, ffs Kelly ??
Galway! Gaulwaa ! Much deserved win, great pennos 👏👏

Mayo v Kerry ? I can't get the words out 😢😢

[danhasset]

Good man Pat. It should be shown in slow motion and who every was involved shouldn't play in the next game

[jimryan]

I've been around plenty of high level sports people, quite a high proportion of them display bad behaviors of many kinds, that's just what I've observed.

[zanussidish]

Hopefully the cowardly get their appropriate reward.

[gerd]

Spillane quite rightly talks about the praise and enthusiasm of the hurling people for their game. Nowadays such a comparison has little merit. In recent times Hurling, from year to has moved on in leaps and bounds played with a level of skill, athleticism, in a gladiatorial fashion that is at times is mind-boggling. Spillane (up to the point of the disgraceful scenes), talks about the Armagh/Galway being 'the game' that football people (of which I am one) being an advertisement for the game of football, that has potential to be something so much better, than the usual fair we have become all to used of witnessing. He may well be right but we need alot more of 'the game'(s), as he puts it, to put football back to a place to rival hurling as a spectacle. Football has been in serious decline in recent years with the all too usual stuff of teams playing passes over and back, across the pitch ad nauseum, seemingly bereft of ideas as to how to inject a bit of magic into the game. I now live in a hurling parish and they laugh at this stuff we call football. Might I say that the best game of football I have seen in some time, was the Meath/Dublin all Ireland ladies final from last year. Two teams that rolled up their sleeves, charging up and down the field from the throw in. A game of real excitement.

[poo]

Well holy God, The GAA at it's best and there will be nothing done about it, not one player will be banned for this disgraceful mob type carry on any bets!

[tomgreene]

To be involved in one such incident is unfortunate ...involved in two careless ...involved in three ...well leave that to any person of moderate brain power ....Is some manager not in control of his team?? Solution : County board fine of significant funds and a ban on team panel for a cooling off period.

[johnmc]

Oisin McConville sounds like postman pat in the filthy mouthed video 😀

[timkelliher]

Armagh should be banned for next year.

[drdecco]

Sadly, parochial tribalism is bred into them from an early age. My own naive 10y.o. was holding his position on the park [no ball in sight] when his marking player suddenly "pulled on" [full-on kick] his ankles - when I shouted, onto the field, "hold on" to this young fellow his Dad [who else but the opposition manager!] thundered aggressively down the sideline to me screaming at the top of his voice, jugular veins blowing out fiendishly "not to interfere" with his players - choice language etc, etc. Sadly, in an instant, my own passion for the GAA fell away. These same stalwarts of GAA "passion" were largely left running the local GAA as ordinary parents and normal would be mentors pulled back. These lunatics are seen on the sidelines all over the country and too often given the positions of power.