Top 20 GAA Moments - Moment 16

Offaly fans sit-down protest, Clare versus Offaly, All-Ireland Hurling Semi-Final Replay, Croke Park, 1998

Following the ending of the game two minutes early the Offaly players and supporters sit down on the pitch in protest. The action forced the Gaelic Athletic Association to stage a replay that Offaly went on to win.

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[Mahocky]

Ger Loughnane with his conspiracy theories. Twat! Offaly were being cheated out of the championship and wouldn't take it lying down. We invaded the pitch and sat down instead!

God Bless the Faithful County!!!

[sacntity]

good lord ger you are talking through your hole, cooney made a genuine mistake, take your beating you soft bloater.

[happyman117100]

i cant help but feel that clare wre robbed that year. There was 2min left and offaly still believed they could have won.

[duggan170693]

Clare robbed of the all-ireland, Offaly would not have scored a goal or three points(they are shit), Michael Duignan should have been sent off and Colin Lynch was not allowed play in replay. Clare would have won the match fair and square. But those biffos had to sit their fat arses down on the pitch and make shit of everything.

[orbandsceptre27]

@monkeypeas That's because we beat the utter shite out of everyone when we have a decent team... it's called NO FEAR!

[orbandsceptre27]

@donnacha211 Offaly were almost robbed... dumb fucker!

[donnacha211]

absolute bullshit! Clare robbed of that All Ireland

[MrOffalyrover]

@cathal33 kilkenny won 4 in a row,where was munster hurling then,if u r so good why couldnt ye dethrone them sooner??ye had 2 wait til they were on d slide 2 get over them,and i hav nothing against daly by d way,r genuine hurling supporters,not d likes of sore losers like u,i give him grt credit 4 d job he has done wit dublin.d likes of u jus cant take ur beating r ever could,where as d likes of me can,genuine supporter.........

[cathal33]

@MrOffalyrover wel munster still rules over leinster, just look at ho won de all irelands in football and hurling last year!!! cork and kerry own de football championship....... best of all it was de gr8 dalo dat knocked ye out dis yr aswel.

[MrOffalyrover]

@cathal33 still sore r we,haha,wen any other county can boast of having all stars in every position on the pitch in both hurling and football then u can start talking,as 4 munster,doggers,no class r style in any form.

[cathal33]

@MrOffalyrover havnt seen much from offaly either..... without kilkenny, dey had to bring in galway to make de leinster championship look in anyway good..... not a patch on de munster championship, offaly wouldnt last pissin time in munster!

[gavinb000]

Michael Duignan should have walked for that pull it was a disgrace . the ref must have seen something since he decided to give him a telling off.That to me was worse than blowing up the game early