Joe Brolly: The Defender of Tyrone.
If you were ever going to get the Derry man to say anything even indifferent about his Red Hand rivals, get legal on his ass.
The RTÉ pundit by night, barrister by day, has cleared up how he sees the reported eight-week ban proposed for Tiarnan McCann’s dive against Monaghan.
According to Joe (Jesus, the Gospel according to Joe), McCann’s only offence is simulation and to punish him for anything more severely than what the law allows is of course unlawful. An eight-week ban, in this case, would be considered more severe than what was ever written.
Tyrone legend, Philip Jordan, has been prominent in airing his disappointment at the lack of consistency from the GAA in arriving at this decision and it was to the former wing back Brolly was advising.
@PhilipJordan7 my view is the use of the specific provision is illegal. The law of statutory interpretation applies to any rule 1/4
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) August 12, 2015
@PhilipJordan7 the lawmaker ( Congress) has created a specific offence of simulation with a specific penalty ( yellow card). 2/4
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) August 12, 2015
@PhilipJordan7 Tiernan's only offence, as a matter of law, is simulation, since the lawmaker is presumed to mean what he says 3/4
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) August 12, 2015
@PhilipJordan7 if this were not so, then the disrepute provision could be used to override any offence, perverse though that would be 4/4
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) August 12, 2015
@PhilipJordan7 so for example, a striking offence could be charged as disrepute 5/6
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) August 12, 2015
@PhilipJordan7 the decision is therefore unlawful. It is a manipulation of the law to punish Tiernan more severely than the law allows 6/6
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) August 12, 2015
And, who’d have thought it. Joe Brolly doing Tyrone a favour.
@PhilipJordan7 Tyrone have not been charged for this advice
— Joe Brolly (@JoeBrolly1993) August 12, 2015
