Litany of misbehaviour no longer passes unnoticed and unless checked will continue to weaken association
The old structures were clearly insufficient but it took another 12 years for a reformed disciplinary process to be adopted and its provisions have been seen to swing in the opposite direction, giving apparently endless opportunities for exculpation.
Anyone with a mobile phone is now a “citizen journalist” and throwing a veil of secrecy over borderline-psychotic interludes is no longer feasible. A friend said consolingly a couple of months ago when the referee coursing season was in full swing, that he knew I was writing about this stuff “every couple of months”.
It has also been discouraged by the increasing tendency towards legal scrutiny both on behalf of poachers and by the gamekeepers of the Rules Advisory Committee. In October GAA president Larry McCarthy was asked about the reputational damage of misbehaviour and made the same point.“It does us no good, I can assure you but then, and I’m not defending anything here, in the overall number of games we hold, how many of them go awry like that? Very, very few. But they do get highlighted, and rightly highlighted, and then we deal with them appropriately and quickly.
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