"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
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[@emeldar1]

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

[@garydurkin6341]

Absolute rat eye gouging

[@fixit3108]

is he named and shamed yet

[@ajay-ul2bf]

​@@fixit3108Damien something or other not a clue about this but fuck him anyway that was a rat move 😂 throw a punch at least you melt

[@johndoyle2429]

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.

[@patrickoflaherty1693]

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

[@smashyrashy]

100% all for it, people saying the players should be ashamed when only one to blame here was the eye gouging rat

[@smashyrashy]

@TheAub2012 that really narrows down the sport🤣🤣

[@tonylaff1007]

Well said Pat Spillane

[@PROPHETS-BANE]

You can understand him??

[@emilymaguire8382]

@@PROPHETS-BANEyou can’t?

[@markjohnston8989]

He's always on the money.

[@stephenmccaughley6713]

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.

[@pd1883]

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 him...........but GAA will let it slide of course.

[@padraigodeorain9966]

McCarthy never got a several year bán and his eye gouge was during a match

[@benfitzpatrick3303]

He wouldn't be so class if they lost

[@padraigodeorain9966]

@@benfitzpatrick3303 what?

[@patkawasaki771]

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.

[@EGC316]

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.

[@thefattymcgee5801]

Nah fuck it, the fighting is the tits. Just normalize it like ice hockey

[@bencullen8480]

It’s just a wee scrap lad, relax.

[@Bdoc76]

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.

[@265justy]

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

[@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 😢😢

[@JK_JK_JK_JK]

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

[@jimryan6023]

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.

[@poo2764]

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!

[@mrmoney2249]

It makes the sport more enjoyable. Fire away!

[@mrmoney2249]

@@johngardiner2279 it’s part of the game ye handbag. Gway and moan in the hairdressers ye fanny

[@danhasset]

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

[@gerd5479]

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.

[@lillyhudson8145]

I'm a Rugby fan both Union and League but would like to know do Hurling fans support GAA Football as well and vice versa ?

[@gerd5479]

@@lillyhudson8145 It depends. I follow both codes, as I grew up in a strong football parish, where hurling did not exist at the time and now live in a parish where hurling is the only game in town. People here tend to dislike anything to do with Gaelic Football, whilst having a huge passion for hurling. In fairness the skil set for hurling is very technical and is the fastest field game in the world and for me the best. Remember all players are completely amateur and it is the pride in the jersey that is the big motivator. They are representing the people from their own village, town and county and this is huge for them. By the way, the biggest game of the year, the All Ireland final is being played today at 3.30pm. I believe its on Sky. If you can catch it, it should be worth your while.

[@lillyhudson8145]

@@gerd5479 Cheers going watch it as prefer Hurling over GAA Football.

[@gerd5479]

@@lillyhudson8145 Hope you saw that. A classic. Hard to believe its an amateur sport, but that is it's secret.

[@lillyhudson8145]

@@gerd5479 One of the best team sports going considering they don't get payed.

[@zanussidish8144]

Hopefully the cowardly get their appropriate reward.

[@tomgreene1843]

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.

[@jkcreepingdeath]

McGeeney is an insecure bully who takes some of his players to MMA training. In his own words, "fighting is the purest form of sport". I fully expected this to rub off on his team as time progressed.

[@tomgreene1843]

@@jkcreepingdeath Thank you for a most interesting observation ...hate to think it might be true.

[@timkelliher3737]

Armagh should be banned for next year.

[@Edo708]

What 🤣

[@jonnyceaarra2164]

Good man Tim! You should be the next Taoiseach !!

[@johnmc3862]

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

[@drdecco1]

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.

[@michaelkinsella8904]

Where is mick dunne the famous not gaa so called commentator. My god the gaa is still horrendous. Glad I got out a long time ago. Bye mick.

[@sayno2lolzisback]

Nothing manly or postiive about that sort of behaviour, they are cowards hiding behind a thin act of macho bravado, a poor subsitute for common sense, respect and restraint. Young men nowadays really need to wise up, violence is a waste of everybody's time.

[@thomasmint1761]

What is this sport is this faggery, where everyone is posturing at each other angrily like tough guys, yet no real punches were thrown?

[@apjpisared]

They should abandon the whole game and kick both teams out of the competition, then hold another quarter final with the two teams they last defeated prior to this game. That should be the rule, then teams would be properly punished. Not saying this will stop a brawl but it will punish a brawl properly then. A few cards here and there isn't a real punishment.

[@geraldinemccormick8635]

Exactly

[@jonnyceaarra2164]

Have you ever seen what happens off the ball in any gaa game. ? Grow up. It’s football there’s a bright side and a dark side! And it’s been going on this years.

[@matlachlannmacgregor-macle8735]

I’m not really a GAA fan, but that eye gouging was absolutely disgusting!

[@Kenny-zn6dl]

During the 80's and again in the late 90's i recall the gaa condemning the 'disgraceful tuggery ' by the Australian compromise rules team for their on field antics, they said that the series should be scrapped if such behaviour continues.....hmmmm, i wonder will they scrap the remainder of the championship??😳

[@zanussidish8144]

Any chance of putting that into a sentence? 👍

[@thisguy976]

Kenny you should probably let it go as it was over 20 years ago.

[@Kenny-zn6dl]

@@thisguy976 30 years actually and just making a point, the gaa are a two faced move the goal posts outfit that bend the rules to suit their amateur agenda.

[@marks_sparks1]

@@Kenny-zn6dl well said

[@pagaanimations]

Oh god why did this happen?

[@JizzyF83]

My man almost became a meme there at the end

[@donns53]

Yeah let’s be outraged and pretend this doesn’t happen all the time..

[@CHAPSOLA]

In my defence I had this as a suggested video, it’s not my sport. It might happen all the time however eye gouging is a scummy cowardly move.

[@mairesavage6815]

My mother's last moments watching that game,she was dying in Marymount hospice Cork...always remember he last sights here on earth @paddy Sullivan 📼 videos 1990s Cork

[@TyronePatOne]

Typical Armagh, every game this crap happened in, Armagh were involved in. No coincidence.

[@3gkevh53]

Nah

[@randomuserchanel1437]

No fight, no passion.

[@johnmcdyer1573]

The man said it all they destroyed it disgusting sportsmanship

[@eddiejimmy50]

Never forget that Kelly's club came out and defended him in the aftermath of it.

[@franoloughlin3495]

Its the GAA, what do you expect, despicable.

[@murphypaschal]

There are a lot of mental health issues going on among young Irish men. They are just not diagnosed. Horrific rates of alcohol and drug addiction as well as some of the highest suicide rates among young men in Europe.

[@johncambridge7339]

If this was soccer the media would be all over this the gaa shouldn't be allowed to get away with this

[@CHAPSOLA]

If this was in the SPFL and it was a Celtic match it would be a scandal. But they wouldn’t care about the incident per se, it’s just that Celtic and our fans and Irish are hated. That’s why I am going to see google about this

[@brickie59]

What does one expect from these chaps, this is not sportsmanship it’s simple unacceptable conduct. And I am so delighted that it’s not played on English soil.

[@johnmcdyer1573]

Never would this have been tolerated in the 60s or 70s

[@brianwhite5534]

This has to go down in GAA history a big fight and then the match goes into pens wow !

[@brendantownsend216]

Disgraceful sport if i'm honest. I can't believe people still play this crap.

[@DMG118]

Why does the RTE have ads before KZbin videos? Isn’t that the whole point of the tv licence?

[@bennyblack6079]

life bans are easy to enforce and work very well to stomp out such violence along with allowing criminal charges reported by the public..

[@tomdonahue4224]

I have no clue who either of these teams are, not even sure of the sport, but the last man speaking sounds a lot like Richard Harris.

[@mrpotato442]

Eye Gouging aside I've no problem with these sideshows....ads an edge to the competition

[@BillyBob-yb5ht]

Dermott Connolly from Dublin was publicly castigated especially so RTE for a much lesser offence.

[@CHAPSOLA]

Neil Lennon got attacked by a fan in Edinburgh at Tyne castle , Lennon reacted in shock and kicked the guy, Lennon got criticised for it. He was the victim. That’s in Scotland haha

[@darrenfarrell-bn2cb]

That Gouger , is Right out of order he’s not even dressed out to be on that playing field.

[@Redri747]

But Ref, "It all started when he punched me back first"...

[@williamanchor2927]

Aye alright Pat, calm down will ye

[@JayRiemenschneider]

I keep saying the Irish would excel in ice hockey. Let's build these boys some rinks

[@pendafen7405]

as a Welsh person who's wandered by with no idea how I've ended up here...oh fy Nuw

[@gerardhenry5501]

Tough sport but it’s a thugs sport .

[@TerenceFusco-l7v]

Durgan Knolls

[@deanfitz1985]

Absolute toerag eye gouging, shouldn't even be on the pitch, kudos to whoever hit him with that haymaker

[@MaciSpaulding]

278 Bud Valleys

[@patmc5474]

Stupidity,1 team down the tunnel at a time anymore since these so called role models can't behave themselves.Each team needs to control the players as this cannot happen again.

[@johndoyle2429]

I agree with you as well. But this is going on for a while now and GAA need to do something about it.

[@patmc5474]

@@johndoyle2429 Good point there is enough officials up there to assist in enforcing compliance aswell.

[@CHAPSOLA]

I know I’m late to the party, but what caused this? What was the punishment? And does this type of thing happen often? Fair play to the analyst. Wish we had guys like him analysing SPFL matches instead of the hun bastards we have to put up with. Anyway I want to come to one of these games, I know Jim mcguinness is a legend there and he spent time at Celtic

[@hiline2009]

and now we have NO Spillane..we are all the poorer. The Cantwell lady- anything to do with Noel Kelly?

[@GalbraithBetty-j4x]

Jan Landing

[@RonanStrain1989]

Tiernan Kelly is a hard man

[@thefattymcgee5801]

Lol I played for the NYGAA minor board in high school and this was every other game. 😂

[@KipRentoulis-q7h]

Cartwright Mountains

[@Please_Subscribe-r5u]

F sake

[@patkelleher6236]

Will the GAA hide behind all the appeal systems again.

[@MjA-tz8so]

I see, It’s a bit like Rugby isn’t it?

[@will1964]

And thats why Hurling is and always will be a superior sport played by superior individuals.

[@daniellynch-ex2xb]

Maybe too you but to me football is the superior sport but no doubt this behaviour from both teams is absolutely disgraceful

[@miketexas4549]

It looks like they're playing rugby

[@billhawkins192]

Such fine men.

[@smashyrashy]

Give it a rest billy

[@luddite2702]

Where is mick dunne the famous commentator not. Lol.

[@df289]

Well Galic football did come from Aussie rules football

[@MichaelHyatt-n3z]

Rebekah Divide

[@Samuel-w7x3b]

only in Europe...No Respect for the Game or the White Brothers....Sad

[@MadgeMiriam-f5f]

Kemmer Meadows

[@bencullen8480]

Geezers are gonna get heated sometimes. This is real sports, live or die for some of these men. If fans or pundits can’t deal with it then go watch Wimbledon or something.

[@padraicwaters3694]

The GAA, has done so much damage to the irish psyche and spirit.

[@Aoife14sig]

croke park brawl now Croke park brawl 1920

[@DonaldHarris-w9f]

Adrain Village

[@nualaduffy4758]

Jesus, our national game, how can anyone justify this...these are supposed to be role models, for future generations...Shame on them. WELL SAID PAT...VIOLENCE IS NOT ACCEPTABLE, IN ANY SPORT...

[@paullinnane8135]

Pat spilliane must think he is a saint, have you ever sinned pat

[@peterpopperry4408]

Why are people watching RTE?

[@arisjatmika]

Know this from Facebook clip 😲😲😲

[@Anderjan]

Ha ha, its a face to face sport, the boys get pissed off, you back your team, eye gouging isn't the way to go but stop being so melodramatic see it for what it is..passion

[@fitzerelli1]

Head of RTE sport and she looks like she needs a good dinner.god help us

[@Maverick8269]

Come on galway

[@dco1929]

galway played well and deserved to win ,

[@Ava-ui4vf]

Yes the played well but it is about the goals and points each and every county has a 50% chance of winning 🏆

[@michaelkinsella8904]

I hated mick dunne. What an embarrassment.

[@fletcher262]

Typical from Armagh. The northern lads are always trying to fight and play dirty.

[@conwaynoel3715]

The game was exciting , edge of the seat stuff, mad even. But tell me it was a great game of football ? It was a load of bollox.

[@michaelkinsella8904]

No change with the gaa then Scummy.

[@JohnSmith-uc4ku]

Us dubs would never be in that meelie, we were to busy picking up Sam 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@Beanbag777]

Picking up needles you mean

[@PaterErica]

9736 Boehm Club

[@merlin5420]

Great entertainment, worth every penny from the paying spectators 😎

[@cillian8442]

That’s the shot

[@MarleyCbook]

everyone was on ethen rathety

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

They’re acting like england fans

[@dessiegilsenan4854]

the whole team should be banned for 12 months

[@geraldinemccormick8635]

Was that a Garda just standing watching and doing nothing about it.

[@thegangboobush8579]

All the coppers on a mad one over a fight😂 it’s a tough sport deal with it