Derrytresk manager Paul Hughes has called for "proper GAA channels and processes."

As the fall-out from the melee at O'Moore Park last weekend rumbles on, Hughes told TeamTalkMag that breaches of discipline have to be addressed through the proper channels and not in the media:

"As a club we took the view that anything that happened last Sunday should be dealt with through proper GAA channels and processes so we released a statement to that effect. We know that things have happened on the day that will possibly bring punishment on both clubs but the GAA processes will highlight those things and we as a club will then work with the relevant authorities to complete whatever requirements are deemed necessary.

"No other approach will allow us move through this stage any quicker. If there are punishments then both clubs will have to accept that as the outcome - we've said to the boys all year that if you miss training there's a sanction, if you break team rules there's a sanction and the boys have accepted that because its been consistently applied by Paul [Canavan] and myself. This will be no different - if there has been wrong done there'll be a sanction.

"We're in a position where we've won an All-Ireland semi-final having played some very, very good football and the boys are still on a high about that - they're delighted and absolutely over the moon, as are we all in the area.

"We wouldn't want the coverage to mask or influence the investigation that follows or indeed the perception of our club in the run-up to the final. There's some residue of disappointment about the reporting but maybe more so among the people of the area about how some media outlets have told this story but that's modern society, we can't do anything about that.

"This is not just one or two year's work, because this has been going on over a long number of years in the club. As I said, we're coming out of a near twenty year period when the club was only winning three or four matches in an entire year and it would have been easy for the club - which draws from about 60 houses and is the smallest of four clubs in a rural parish and the smallest in Tyrone - to fold." Tweet

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