Lynch the Ref!!

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Sending off 5 players (a Football League record) during a game between Wigan Athletic and Bristol Rovers - 4 of them from the Bristol team!

But the obvious popular support which the hunger strikers and their cause enjoyed nationally was not sufficient to elicit support from the Free State government who share the common, futile hope of the British government – the criminalisation of captured freedom fighters. He was also a boxer with the St. Canice’s club, once reaching the County Derry final as a schoolboy, but not always managing as easily as he achieved victory in his first fight! It is going to take a little time to work with the players, access them and get their fitness levels to where they need to be to play the football I like to play. They can play their part in helping the club achieve its ambition; to gain promotion to the Conference North. That is our big ambition.

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Clann Eireann are through to the Armagh decider against Crossmaglen Rangers thanks to a 3-11 to 2-12 victory over Ballymacnab.

Just before the match was due to start his opponent asked him how many previous fights he’d had. With suppressed humour, Kevin answered “thirty-three” so convincingly that his opponent, overcome with nervous horror, couldn’t be persuaded into the ring. KEVIN LYNCH admits he is already looking to next season after Marine’s frustrating Easter period, but says they will not give up the fight for promotion.During a somewhat colourful career handling some of the Game’s top players, he was probably the most controversial referee seen in the UK for many years. There was the time he bowed to the crowd and started conducting the chanting in a Leyton Orient-Brentford game, a spontaneous, humorous act but one with the potential to incite a riot according to the football authorities, who stopped just short of suspending him. Most notoriously, he sent off five players in a fractious game in December 1997 between Wigan Athletic and Bristol Rovers, still a Football League record. O'Doherty hit four of Slaughtneil's closing six scores - including a late score from play - with O'Mianain also rounding off his final display by notching his third point.

Former Southport player Lynch has previously been Chesterfield first team and senior development coach.

Burren edged Clonduff in the second semi-final at the Newry venue. Clonduff led 0-8 to 0-7 but Donal O'Hare levelled before Rian Treanor won it from the free. He has real quality, and a top professional attitude, which is what we want from him. That is what we signed him for, and is what we are signing Saul for, they have been there and seen it, and can provide great competition for places. The Lynches were also, typically, a close family and in 1973, at the age of sixteen, Kevin went to England to join his three brothers, Michael, Patsy and Gerard, who were already working in Bedford. Eunan, who recalls how Kevin used to get a terrible slagging from other blanket men because the GAA, of which of course he was a member, did not give enough support to the fight for political status, also says he was not surprised by Kevin’s decision to join the hunger strike. Like other blanket men, Eunan says, Kevin used to discuss a hunger strike as a possibility, a long time ago, “and he was game enough for it”.