All-Ireland winner believes GAA must find 'proper punishments' as deterrent after Ulster final brawl
The post-game celebrations were marred somewhat by an unseemly melee involving players from both teams and the GAA are investigating the ugly scenes.
Former Donegal great Eamon McGee believes the GAA need to get tough with their disciplinary processes if they want to eradicate these types of scenes from the game.
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McGee, whose brother Neil is part of the Donegal management team, told the Irish Daily Star: "It was one of those days where you just stand back and admire both sets of players, just leaving it all out there.
"So much to love about that game and what are we spending the majority of our time talking about? A GAA row.
"On the incident itself, I can sit back and call it objectively now. It looks terrible from the Donegal player to shout over and celebrate like that but for some reason that level of goading is acceptable.
"Armagh players did the same at normal time as it looked like Donegal had thrown the game away.
"You can rest assured Jim (McGuinness) will be annoyed at his player. I've seen that first hand and he wouldn't endorse it.
"In spite of all that, somehow we are in a place where it's just accepted as part and parcel of the gamel that a player can walk up and box someone in the face and then you have three or four lads jump in.
"There's a picture doing the rounds where a Guard is on the ground trying to sort things out. Lots of lads' reaction to this is, 'So what, he deserved a slap?'
"Maybe he did deserve a slap. In the real world, I have a list of boys in my head that deserve a slap but it doesn't mean I can act on it? How can anyone sit there and justify the scenes we saw after the game?
"I suppose it's a bit rich this, coming from me who was dirty in the extreme. I have done more than enough dirty acts in my day - verbally and physically - but nobody is better placed than me to understand that part of the game.
"We probably won't see a row like that again for the year but one row at that level is too many.
"Create proper punishments, deal them out and we won't see rows like last Saturday night - or waste our time talking about them."
Eamon McGee's column can be read in full on irishmirror.ie/sport this weekend.
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