{"id":162352,"date":"2025-11-04T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/162352\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T13:30:07","slug":"garda-probe-as-teen-hospitalised-after-wexford-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/162352\/","title":{"rendered":"Garda probe as teen hospitalised after Wexford final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unsavoury scenes which followed the conclusion of last Sunday&#8217;s Wexford SFC final at Chadwicks Wexford Park are the subject of a garda investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Castletown retained their title after a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/football\/2025\/1102\/1541795-dominant-castletown-reign-supreme-in-wexford-again\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">four-point win against Shelmaliers<\/a> but celebrations quickly turned sour as a brawl broke out between rival players, mentors and fans who got on to the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>A teenager was taken to hospital in the aftermath while it&#8217;s also alleged that a supporter received a broken nose.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to RT\u00c9 Sport, a garda spokesperson said that an investigation is being carried out into the alleged assault on the teenager.<\/p>\n<p>The full statement read: &#8220;Garda\u00ed attended the scene following report of an incident of alleged assault that occurred at a sports ground in Wexford on Sunday 2nd November 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A male youth (aged in his late teens) was conveyed to Wexford General Hospital for treatment of injuries believed to be non-life-threatening at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Investigations are ongoing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wexford GAA are also conducting their own investigation.<\/p>\n<p>County chairperson John Kenny said it is something they are taking &#8220;very seriously&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/sport\/gaelic-games\/gaelic-football\/gardai-investigating-after-teen-sustains-facial-injuries-in-brawl-after-wexford-football-final\/a153731070.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wexford People<\/a>, he said: &#8220;I was in the stand at the time and it happened at the other side of the pitch. I just saw the congregation of people out on the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a very regrettable situation and one that we will be taking very seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There was a Wexford GAA management meeting on Monday night, with Kenny adding that a &#8220;further statement&#8221; which will be forward to the disciplinary committee, will be issued.<\/p>\n<p><b>Watch the PWC All-Star Awards on Friday on RT\u00c9 One and RT\u00c9 Player. Follow a live blog on the RT\u00c9 News App and on rte.ie\/sport<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Watch Loughmacrory v Kilcoo in the Ulster Football Championship on Saturday from 7pm on RT\u00c92 and RT\u00c9 Player<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unsavoury scenes which followed the conclusion of last Sunday&#8217;s Wexford SFC final at Chadwicks Wexford Park are the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-162352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-main-news","19":"tag-mainnews","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115491676224451116","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}