The GAA’s Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) said that all incidents in the Donegal-Kerry game had been dealt with at the time by match referee Sean Hurson, while Brennan was sent off in the Galway game.<\/p>\n
McConville admitted “I’m pretty sure there would have been massive consequences as a result” if Brennan had appeared on the sideline, but Dublin’s County Board and players “obviously feel very strongly about how he has been treated”.<\/p>\n
“Why not? What have they got to lose?,” 2002 All-Ireland winner McConville added.<\/p>\n
“They obviously feel strongly about it, but I feel it was the day to make a bigger stand than refusing media duties.<\/p>\n
“I feel that strongly about it – that was the thing that was ringing in my head all week. <\/p>\n
“Does not talking to the media hurt? You make a point but they are under no obligation to do media duties anyway.”<\/p>\n
With Dean Rock on the touchline throughout Brennan’s suspension to date, McConville did say that he didn’t know if it would have made a difference in the result as Louth defeated Dublin in Championship football for the first time since 1973.<\/p>\n
“I don’t know the absence of Ger Brennan on the sideline would be the winning or losing of that game. <\/p>\n
“At the end of the day players win matches.”<\/p>\n
McConville added that Louth “ground it out” after there was little to separate the sides at Croke Park.<\/p>\n
“I thought we would be having the conversation about Louth tapering off, because Dublin had all of the momentum.<\/p>\n
“Louth deserved it, because they were big in the big moments.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The GAA’s Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) said that all incidents in the Donegal-Kerry game had been dealt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-477535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477535","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=477535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}