Mayo GAA awaits referee's report as controversy surrounds championship result
The awarding of a two-point score is at the centre of a controversial result in the Egan Jewellers Mayo Intermediate Football Championship on Friday night. Picture: INPHO/Evan Logan
This year’s new playing rules have brought their first major controversy to Mayo club football with intense scrutiny over the result of Friday night’s intermediate championship game between Kilmaine and Hollymount-Carramore.
The match in Garrymore was declared a draw, Kilmaine 0-18, Hollymount-Carramore 1-15, however, speculation abounds over whether Hollymount-Carramore will lodge an appeal to Mayo GAA County Board based upon the awarding of a two-point score to Kilmaine late in the first-half which video footage suggests was kicked from inside the arc.
The result of the match, as it stands, has major consequences with regard to qualification for the Mayo IFC Quarter-Finals, with both Kilmaine and Hollymount-Carramore finishing joint second on three points in the Group 4 standings, but Kilmaine advancing on a better scoring difference.
A Hollymount-Carramore win would have sent the St Coman’s Park side through. Instead, as of now, their season is over, as they will avoid the relegation playoffs regardless of the outcome of the group’s other game between Moy Davitts and Louisburgh.
Mayo GAA Communications Officer John Walker told the this morning (Saturday) that no objection to the result of Friday’s game had yet been received but that the board was aware of ongoing comment about the match and that they would await the referee's report.
A meeting of the board’s Competitions Controls Committee (CCC) is already scheduled to be held in Castlebar at 6.30pm on Sunday following the conclusion of the final round of group games in the Mayo senior, intermediate and junior football championships.
John Walker added that it has yet to be decided whether the quarter-final draws for all three competitions will take place at the meeting on Sunday.
