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Dublin Legend Calls For GAA To "Make Example" Of Lee Keegan

Dublin Legend Calls For GAA To "Make Example" Of Lee Keegan
Gavin Cooney
By Gavin Cooney
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Dean Rock became the first GAA player in history to be festooned by a GPS Unit on Sunday, as Lee Keegan took desperate measures to try and unsettle the Dublin forward before he could twist the knife into Mayo's heart.

It didn't work, with Rock nervelessly converting the championship-winning free. Keegan was loitering beside Rock, and tossed his GPS unit toward the ball in desperation.

Lee Keegan

Rock brushed the incident off afterward, but writing in his Herald column Dubs legend Charlie Redmond was outraged by Keegan's shenanigans, and called on the GAA to throw the book at the 2016 Footballer of the Year.

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He calls it "a new low", and followed it up with a bit of whataboutery:

For Lee Keegan to take the unit out of its brace and throw it at Dean Rock marks a new low. Lee Keegan let himself down and he let Mayo down doing what he did. The GAA needs to make an example of Keegan now.

What would have happened if it was a Dublin player who threw it at Cillian O’Connor? Can you imagine the reaction in the media and GAA circles if it was Diarmuid Connolly?

It seems an overreaction on Redmond's part. This is merely in the news because it is conspicuous: every free-taker in the country has to put up with sledging and verbal abuse intended to unsettle them, while hurling is frequently punctuated with hurley-throwing incidents, most notably at Lar Corbett in the 2010 All-Ireland final.

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Redmond's full column is in today's Herald.

[independent.ie]

See Also: Galway Get 14 Hurling All-Star Nominations, But Waterford Dominate Player Of The Year Category

 

 

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