{"id":378468,"date":"2026-04-02T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378468\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:54:08","slug":"murphy-to-face-no-further-punishment-over-casey-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/378468\/","title":{"rendered":"Murphy to face no further punishment over Casey incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donegal&#8217;s Michael Murphy will not face any sanction for his strike on Kerry\u2019s Dylan Casey during the Tir Chonaill County\u2019s Division 1 triumph on Sunday, RT\u00c9 Sport understands.<\/p>\n<p>Television footage clearly showed the All-Ireland winning captain twice struck Casey in the body with his fist before then making contact with the Kerry player&#8217;s neck\/head area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/football\/2026\/0329\/1565739-donegal-dominate-kerry-to-be-crowned-league-champions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">In the 16th minute<\/a>, Murphy was yellow carded by referee David Gough after he had discussed the incident with sideline official Conor Lane, who was close to the action on the Hogan Stand side.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the post-match analysis centred on whether or not it should have been a red card, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/football\/2026\/0329\/1565818-its-a-red-card-all-day-panel-agree-murphy-call-wrong\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with Allianz League Sunday analysts Lee Keegan and Ciar\u00e1n Whelan<\/a> amongst those expressing their surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The GAA\u2019s central competitions control committee (CCCC) have the power to examine incidents like this and dish out further punishment, but that is not expected to happen in this case.<\/p>\n<p>The decision means that Murphy will be available for Donegal\u2019s Ulster three-in-a-row charge, their defence starting against Down in Letterkenny on 26 April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-container tpe\" data-embed=\"youtube\" data-id=\"wimWlkoXf94\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal&#8217;s Michael Murphy will not face any sanction for his strike on Kerry\u2019s Dylan Casey during the Tir&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-378468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}