Liam O'Neill has criticised Donegal for not seeing through the case against Kevin O'Brien.

The Dublin defender was last week cleared of allegedly biting Paddy McBrearty due to a lack of evidence and O'Neill says Donegal were guilty of not contributing to the investigation:

"The ideal thing would have been, having set the wheels in motion, that the process would have been seen through," the GAA president told the Irish Examiner.

"I think there's 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 to the CCCC, they're volunteers, they come in here, the majority of them, and they do their business.

"People who had evidence didn't show and that's it. There's nothing we can do about it. Our system has improved dramatically. Páraic [Duffy] put that on the record 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." Tweet

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