He said Na Fianna objected to Valentino playing in the match and the referee warned Na Gaeil Aeracha - Ireland’s first explicitly LGBTQ+ inclusive club - that the result could be appealed.
Eventually they won the match 7-11 to 1-05, picking up the first piece of silverware in their history.
“This kind of erupted in controversy on Twitter,” he said. “There was a photograph of the semi-final match with Ballyboden St Enda’s with the same player."
“They are a tall person, slightly balding and there was quite a bit of controversy. It was claimed falsely that the player scored 2-9 in the match when they didn’t score at all.”
All the usual tropes passed off as informed commentary.
“There are already, even within women’s and men’s sports at the moment, players who are bigger than others, stronger than others, faster than others, whatever it might be,” they said.
“People do vary hugely across sports and again, I would note that we are looking at amateur level sports, club-level sports, so even then you have variations in terms of who has played the sport for longer – all that sorts of stuff.