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15th September 2022
04:15pm BST

A Category IVa infraction governing ‘Any type of assault on a Referee, Umpire, Linesman or Sideline Official’ carries a minimum 48-week ban but according to the Roscommon Herald, county board chiefs have handed out the maximum censure in this case.
The game itself was abandoned and the official in question, Kevin Naughton, was left laying unconscious on the middle of the pitch.
Naughton was brought to the hospital where he remained overnight and released the following morning.
A video of the incident had been doing the rounds on social media, and is not pleasant viewing.
The county board had already taken the action of postponing all games in the county the weekend after the alleged assault occurred.Explore more on these topics: