THE GAC are aiming to wrap up the long-running Kenny Larkin broken jaw probe at a meeting in Croke Park tonight.

Westmeath defender Larkin was left with a broken jaw after an incident in a challenge match against Down in Newcastle, Co Dublin on May 27 last.

The off-the-ball incident left him taking food and drink through a straw for five weeks, suffering extreme gum pain, out of work as a garda trainee for weeks and requiring the insertion of two plates around his chin and a third below his ear.

The GAC have already established that Down forward James McCartan may have a case to answer and he has been invited to have a personal hearing tonight. It is not known if McCartan will attend the meeting.

He already faces court proceedings early next month over the alleged incident after a complaint and subsequent investigation by Rathcoole gardaí.

The GAC were recently instructed by the GAA's powerful Management Committee to expedite proceedings and come to a conclusion before the matter made the courts. The games administration body had to shelve scheduled meetings in December and January for various reasons but are now determined to finish with their dealings on a case that rose to prominence last autumn when it emerged that gardaí were waiting outside a meeting room in Croke Park to interview McCartan who had been asked to attend as part of the initial GAC investigation.

The GAA were angered about the presence of the gardaí for what was a private meeting and made their feelings known to Garda authorities subsequently.