GAA President Liam O’Neill has slammed Donegal officials for their handling of the alleged bite incident on Patrick McBrearty by Dublin’s Kevin O’Brien.
O’Neill criticised Donegal for not following through with the case against Kevin O’Brien. O’Brien was last week cleared of allegedly biting Patrick McBrearty due to a lack of evidence but O’Neill says Donegal were guilty of not contributing to the investigations. 
O’Neill told the Irish examiner,
“The ideal thing would have been, having set the wheels in motion that the process be seen through,”
“I think there is a certain level of disappointment with this case, it would have been better if they knew they weren’t going to see it out to the end.”
“It left people who acted in good faith with an outcome that wasn’t satisfactory, in fairness the CCCC, there volunteers, they come in here and the majority of they do their business.”
“People who had evidence didn’t show and that’s it, there is nothing we can do about it, our system has improved dramatically, Paraic Duffy put that on the record here last week, it works when people co-operate with it and tell what happened – that didn’t happen in this case.”
“A case like this highlights how well it works in most cases. We were left with flimsy evidence and depending on direct evidence, which didn’t show. That was it.”
“In general, if we are to have success with the respect initiative people might discipline their own players where incidents that are not acceptable take place. If we could get to that level then we would be very happy at central level that our processes are working well.”