Paul Grimley has called on the GAA to impose restrictions on the media.

The Armagh manager made the call after ending his self-imposed vow of silence in the wake of his side's narrow All-Ireland SFC quarter-final loss to Donegal. The 'media ban' had been in place since before the Orchard County's Ulster SFC opener against Cavan on June 8.

"I would suggest that Croke Park regulates the media from here on in because, I know you have a job to do and that's to be respected. I'm not being disrespectful for the sake of it, I'm being disrespectful at this time to people who disrespect us," he said.

"What I'm saying to you is that, whenever I get a phone call at three or four in the afternoon or 11 in the morning, you're nearly expected to take that call. What I'm saying now is that maybe in the future it is going to have to be regulated in some way."

Grimley claims Armagh decided to extend their controversial blackout after an "ugly side of the media appeared."

He continued: "We took a stance towards the media and the media took a nasty approach to this. An ugly side of the media appeared, so it only enforced the decision that we made to keep that going.

"It became a situation where, because we had a right to keep our own counsel and we weren't winning favour with the media for doing that, then they started into, as I've said, schoolboyish-type insults and stuff like that towards myself, towards the team and towards the county board.

"That's not acceptable to anybody. You don't do it to professionals, I can assure you." Tweet

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