{"id":249508,"date":"2026-01-17T12:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249508\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T12:07:10","slug":"loughreas-cullen-killeen-cleared-to-play-in-all-ireland-final-after-dra-set-aside-suspension-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/249508\/","title":{"rendered":"Loughrea\u2019s Cullen Killeen cleared to play in All-Ireland final after DRA set aside suspension \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Loughrea<\/a> centrefielder Cullen Killeen been cleared to play in Sunday\u2019s All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling<\/a> final against Ballygunner<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At a meeting of the Disputes Resolution Authority (DRA) on Friday night in Dublin, the GAA\u2019s independent arbitration tribunal set aside Killeen\u2019s suspension for striking Slaughtneil\u2019s Brendan Rogers at the very end of December\u2019s All-Ireland semi-final.<\/p>\n

Killeen and his club had previously been unsuccessful in challenging the charge at the GAA\u2019s Central Hearings Committee (CHC) and Central Appeals Committee (CAC).<\/p>\n

Their only remaining recourse was the DRA, which found in their favour. The matter was heard by senior counsel Dermot Flanagan, barrister Gareth Robinson and former Tipperary chair Con Hogan.<\/p>\n

The outcome swung on the CAC\u2019s determination that \u201cthe CHC heard the evidence submitted by the Claimant and reviewed the video and decided that the evidence was not compelling such as to rebut the referee\u2019s report.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tribunal decided, having reviewed the CHC minutes, that this had not been the test applied, and Killeen\u2019s suspension was accordingly quashed.<\/p>\n

Further detail of the \u201cfull reasoned, written award\u201d is yet to be published which \u201cwill be communicated to the parties and published on the DRA website once finalised.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the meantime, Killeen, who was man of the match in both Loughrea\u2019s All-Ireland semi-final and Galway county final victories, is now free to line out in Sunday\u2019s All-Ireland decider at Croke Park (throw-in 1.30pm).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Loughrea centrefielder Cullen Killeen been cleared to play in Sunday\u2019s All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling final against Ballygunner. At…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30883,7026,49722,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-249508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-galway-gaa","tag-waterford-gaa","tag-gaa-club-hurling-championship","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}