The GAA today announced they are considering having the 2008 Football Final replayed due to a breach of one of the most obscure articles of the GAA charter.

Kerry fans may find themselves thrown a lifeline, albeit one too late for the dozens of fanatical supporters who threw themselves from the top of Valentia lighthouse after Sunday’s all-Ireland defeat, after an eagle-eyed official from Waterville spotted the little known clause.

Rule 345b, subsection a12 of the GAA Football Charter states, “No county shall be permitted to win, maintain or defend a trophy when any member of the staff including, but not limited to, players, management, coaches, physios, officials, selectors, kit-men, laundry ladies or doctors, shares a name with an Irish Eurovision song contest entrant”.

Tyrone player hates Irish Eurovision entrant

Tyrone’s manager Micky Harte, the architect of three all-Ireland victories, may now find all his hard work undone due to his namesake appearing in the 2003 Eurovision song contest. His 11th place finish disappointed an expectant nation and now that average performance is coming back to haunt the Tyrone football team.

A GAA official told the Irish Sentinel “Rules are rules and without rules we’d be ruleless. I know some rules can become not rules through the dispensation of large amounts of cash, you just have to look at Croke Park hosting Englishbastardball matches for that, but there’s no cash involved here and I expect this to be upheld”.

It is believed that Tyrone, who could find their previous two victories stricken from the record books and awarded to Leitrim, will contest the ruling with their defence centering on the fact that Eurovision Mickey Harte was known as Mickey Joe Harte at the time of his shameful failure in front of the whole of Europe.

However, legal experts tell us that middle names are generally irrelevant during legal proceedings with precedent set by 57 year old Ray Winston Darcy’s attempts to sue Today FM presenter Ray Darcy for a share of the merchandising royalties from the range of Ray Darcy action figures released by Hasbro in 2004.