{"id":478411,"date":"2026-06-02T02:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478411\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T02:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T02:01:10","slug":"oisin-mcconville-ger-brennan-should-have-breached-12-week-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/478411\/","title":{"rendered":"Ois\u00edn McConville: Ger Brennan should have breached 12-week ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wicklow manager Ois\u00edn McConville says Dublin\u2019s Ger Brennan should have breached his 12-week ban and taken to the sideline for Sunday\u2019s All-Ireland SFC Round 1 game against Louth.<\/p>\n<p>As Brennan serves his suspension and Donegal&#8217;s Jim McGuinness  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41851677.html\">avoided a ban<\/a> for pushing Kerry player Diarmuid O\u2019Connor last Saturday week, McConville felt Brennan should have returned to sideline duties as a form of protest at the contrast in how the managers were treated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;If I was Ger Brennan at the weekend, I would have arrived at Croke Park and stood at the sidelines with the blessing of the county board,&#8221; he  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0npc6kr\">told<\/a> BBC\u2019s  GAA Social. &#8220;I would have went to the county board during the week and said it was time to make a stand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cDublin made a stand after the game because they didn&#8217;t talk to any press or any media duties. But I feel strongly enough that I think Ger Brennan should have went and put himself on the line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Meanwhile, Monaghan\u2019s Bobby McCaul will have his knee scanned in the next 48 hours but there are fears he has ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament for the second time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Aughnamullen man  <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishexaminer.com\/sport\/gaa\/arid-41854659.html\">scored 1-1 coming off the bench<\/a> in Clones on Sunday and the manner in which he went down in discomfort was similar to his previous setback sustained in last year\u2019s Ulster U20 championship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Elsewhere, three of the eight All-Ireland SFC Round 2 games on Saturday and Sunday week will not be shown live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It is GAA+\u2019s intention to stream three games while RT\u00c9 are set to shown two on Sunday, 1pm and 3.30pm throw-ins. The early games are due to RT\u00c9\u2019s World Cup coverage of Germany and Netherland games that evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">GAA+ will again have first call on the plum fixtures providing there are no requests from counties to play on Sunday. Last Saturday week, they chose to show Kerry-Donegal and Cork-Meath, which were the first and second preferences of RT\u00c9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Finally, Kerry U20 All-Ireland winning defender Aodhna \u00d3 Beaglaoich has hailed his team-mate Gear\u00f3id White as a star in the making.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">John Mitchels forward White was excellent in the second half of Saturday\u2019s final win over Tyrone and \u00d3 Beaglaoich said: \u201cGear\u00f3id is special. He will be a big name in years to come, so hopefully he\u2019ll keep going.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI\u2019m not surprised at all, to be honest. I see it day-in and day-out in training and games, and club matches. I\u2019ve played with him at minor level. That\u2019s the way he is. That\u2019s the player he is. He does it at training. He\u2019s not afraid of anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wicklow manager Ois\u00edn McConville says Dublin\u2019s Ger Brennan should have breached his 12-week ban and taken to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478412,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[177329,4365,1965,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-478411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-championship-2026","tag-gaelic-football","tag-hurling","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478411","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=478411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}