In today’s Hospital Pass, we’re again forced to consider the apparent might of Kilkenny’s industrial-strength hurling conveyor belt, and there’s news of a second police investigation into GAA violence abroad.
Yesterday we had a look at the conundrum facing Kilkenny manager Brian Cody, namely trying to find a place in his team for up to a dozen top forwards.
If he thinks that’s a problem, it’s nothing to what’s awaiting him in five or six years’ time, by the looks of it.
Because it turns out that the Cats have so many Kittens coming through the ranks that they can’t even settle on a panel for the U16 team.
Instead, the hurling board has formed TWO panels under TWO separate management teams, which will be whittled down to one, presumably shit-hot team in time for an inter-county tournament in Tipperary next month.
Watch out world.
Ay-up, it’s the Old Bill
A couple of weeks after the San Francisco Police Department were forced to launch an investigation into the on-field incident which left Fermanagh’s Mark McGovern in a coma, the Met in London has initiated an official enquiry into another unsavoury Gaelic football episode.
The Irish Post is reporting that police are “actively investigating” an assault which is alleged to have occurred during a game between Round Towers and St Kiernan’s on 9 June last, the cops having clearly lost patience with the GAA’s internal disciplinary methods.
And to make matters worse, this wasn’t even a good old shemozzle between opposing players. No, apparently the incident involved two players from the same club.
The GAA in London, though, are not happy to be snooped upon by the powers-that-be in this manner. “Such news [i.e. the investigation] would not stand the Association in good stead,” said London County Board Chairman Tommy Harrell, seemingly oblivious to the fact that on-field assaults don’t exactly stand the Association in good stead, either.
