12-week ban <\/a> following a GAA investigation into an incident which occurred during a Junior B football championship match played earlier this year.<\/p>\nThe fixture, which was between Garnish GAA, of which Mr Harrington is chairman, and Castlelyons, took place in Ballingeary on May 9, and saw Garnish defeated by a single point.<\/p>\n
Mr Harrington was elected to Cork County Council in Bantry-West Cork in 2024, having failed to be elected five years earlier, when he missed out, after a recount, by a single vote to Holly Cairns of the Social Democrats.<\/p>\n
He was elected Cork County Council deputy mayor in June, a role that is is largely ceremonial but includes representing the county at official functions, community events and civic engagements<\/p>\n
According to the Cork GAA County Board, Mr Harrington\u2019s suspension was imposed under Rule 7.2(e), which covers misconduct \u201cconsidered to have discredited the Association\u201d.<\/p>\n
This clause is often applied for serious off-field infractions, breaches of unpermitted training or play directives, or severe behavioural misconduct by GAA officials or members.<\/p>\n
The rule allows more severe punishments, up to expulsion from the association.<\/p>\n
In a statement to Cork\u2019s 96FM, Mr Harrington maintained his innocence and said his ban was now over.<\/p>\n
He added that he had been involved in the GAA for 40 years, first as a player and had never before received a sanction of any kind.<\/p>\n
\u201cI now wish to put the matter behind me and move forward positively,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would respectfully suggest that you consider covering all GAA suspensions and disciplinary matters on a consistent basis, rather than focusing on one individual case.\u201d This, he suggested, would help reassure the public \u201cthat such matters are being reported fairly, consistently and without bias\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Harrington was asked for comment.<\/p>\n
Cork County Council said it does not comment on third-party organisations or their internal processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The deputy mayor of Co Cork has hit out at media coverage of his 12-week suspension under GAA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,63,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-597514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-cork-county-council","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597514","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=597514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}