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

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

Absolute rat eye gouging

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

Well said Pat Spillane

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 😢😢

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.

Hopefully the cowardly get their appropriate reward.

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

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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

No fight, no passion.

My man almost became a meme there at the end

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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??😳

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

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

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

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.

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

A draw wow

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

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

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.

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

Armagh should be banned for next year.

Aye alright Pat, calm down will ye

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

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

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

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

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

Know this from Facebook clip 😲😲😲

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

Will the GAA hide behind all the appeal systems again.

Such fine men.

Where is mick dunne the famous commentator not. Lol.

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

Well Galic football did come from Aussie rules football

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.

No change in the gaa I see. Where is mick dunne the famous commentator not.

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.

croke park brawl now Croke park brawl 1920

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

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.

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...

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

That’s the shot

This not wath Gaelic is about😢😢

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

Come on galway

Great role models for youngsters!! Maybe they should leave GAA and take up MMA.

Tough sport but it’s a thugs sport .

Galway took the comeback badly then lol

They’re acting like england fans

galway played well and deserved to win ,

I love it

Was exciting though.

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

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

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

disgusting gaa need to puish all involved people pay enough for tickets not for this violence for kids to see

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

I hated mick dunne. What an embarrassment.

What a Absolute joke, and the GAA should not let this go, there are kids watching this!! And they thinks it ok, what kind of examples are these teams shown the younger generation, shame on all involved 🙄, 😡we didn't pay money to watch this bullshit

Tiernan Kelly is a hard man

Kids watching on

Bring back the Biff .

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

I've seen worse fights

the whole team should be banned for 12 months

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

Lol toughen up fights are ok

Animals.

Armagh players were involved in three different melees in 2022. Says it all really !

Ah please! If you want to talk about the great game, then do just that. The Rte cameras were only to glad to linger on the melee! Exciting, enjoyable game. Forget about the sham handbags and pundit sensationalism.

Just a bit of craic lads

Pure passion. I’m sure the Galway and Armagh boys had a pint afterwards.

UP ARMAGH 🧡

Hand bag stuff

bog men. bog ball

It’s pack mentality

Brawling is fun

Absolute savages

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

The last guy says it all 💪