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Published 19:06 16 Jun 2017 BST
Updated 22:16 16 Jun 2017 BST
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"The rule with Laois, in their guidelines, was 'No GAA-related tweets'. "You're often watching a match on a Sunday and there's no-one from any county offering their opinion on any game. They're all not allowed tweet about GAA. I'd imagine this is a guideline in all of the counties. "Begley, anyway, got an operation in hospital and he was lying in bed with a cast on his leg. He took one of these selfies and wrote something like - Laid up for the next two months now but on the long road to recovery... hashtag whatever. "That was deemed a GAA-related tweet and he was disciplined for it... That will tell you how ridiculous it gets."[caption id="attachment_45312" align="aligncenter" width="640"]
David Moran, Pearce Hanley and Colm Begley during Ireland's International Rules trip to Australia in 2014. [Credit: INPHO][/caption]Armagh legend and former Footballer of the Year, Stevie McDonnell joked that Begley definitely had previous when it came to flouting Twitter bans.
"The only Twitter ban I was ever involved in was under Anthony Tohill on the International Rules tour in 2011. He had every reason to do so and I'm glad that he did it. "We travelled down to Australia and Anthony said, 'Until we play our last Test, nobody under any circumstances tweets anything at all'. "We're down in Australia a Begley is tweeting away like mad, so he is! He's the only one doing it. He didn't seem to care what anyone was saying."Not everyone would have the neck to go against Tohill at the best of times but that is what makes Begley such a unique character. He knows his own mind and he doesn't mind sharing it, one tweet at a time...
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