Possible Clues:

• Like a gag, perhaps, to chastise
• Put in a corner, perhaps
• Sentence like wordplay, might you say?
• Northern Ireland in drive for discipline
• Push in if it's out? Correct
• Shove around Ulster for a sentence, for instance
• Take disciplinary action in a jokey way?
• Impose a penalty on
• Inflict penalty
• Possibly fine effort, going about backing in