IT IS fast becoming the issue that won’t go away. August 18 saw Limerick lose both the minor and senior hurling semi finals at Croke Park.
We continue, to this day, to receive emails and letters from fans about the senior game and the over-mentioned ‘hype’. The post mortem of that game is still continuing, alongside the bigger story for me, Hawk Eye Gate.
The Limerick minor team continue to train in the hope that a resolution can be found to their appeal against the decision.
The Limerick County Board appealed to the CCCC and lost. They then moved on to the CAC and lost there too. The process is now at the DRA. Confused yet? I am.
This was the latest statement from the GAA, at the time of going to press.
“Following the Hearing of an Appeal on 26ú Lúnasa, the Central Appeals Committee decided that the Central Competitions Control Committee was correct in deciding that it was precluded from considering the objection by Limerick to the awarding of the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Semi-Final game to Galway due to the provisions of Riail 7.10(n) (T.O. 2013)”
Instead of getting all tied up in a legal minefield, of abbreviations and laws, could someone from the GAA not have told the teams at half time that the point stood? Could someone from the GAA not have spoken to both teams after the game had finished level and told them extra time would not be played? No. It seems it is better to go through a long winded non-sensical process rather than apply common sense. Instead of abbreviating jobs for the boys, why don’t they abbreviate the process altogether?
