Wexford GAA have handed down the maximum 96-week suspension on the club mentor involved in an alleged assault on referee Michael Lannigan and an umpire following a Junior A club football championship game.
The incident took place at the end of the match between St Joseph's and Our Lady's Island on 25 September, with a St Joseph's mentor also receiving a ban from attending games on his home pitch at Whiterock Hill. The investigation carried out by the Wexford Central Competitions Control Committee also fined the club €1,000.
In an initiative by clubs in the county to address the lack of respect towards officials, Wexford chairman Micheál Martin told RTÉ Sport: "We had 100% of clubs conduct workshops within ten days of the incident and got tremendous two-way proposals for the improvement of respect within our games.
"We will also be announcing next week the roll out of a research project with a senior research fellow from UCD next week which we will fund."
In what was another incident for Wexford GAA to deal with, a Naomh Éanna mentor also received 96-week ban for an alleged assault on referee Jimmy Heaney at the end of their Junior B hurling championship game with Na Fianna Clonard.
