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- ↑ Keys, Colm (8 August 2009). "Thirteen years after infamous Mayo-Meath melee the shockwaves have not yet settled". Irish Independent. Retrieved 8 August 2009.
My biggest regret was that I should have sent off four, two from each side. And Meath's John McDermott would have been one of them," he recalled. "When it all settled down my gut instinct was to send off McDermott with McHale. I had my mind made up on that.