{"id":499624,"date":"2026-06-14T18:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499624\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T18:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:44:12","slug":"he-apologised-i-accepted-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/499624\/","title":{"rendered":"‘He apologised, I accepted it’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ger Brennan says he wants to move on from the recent controversy over his ban and revealed that GAA President Jarlath Burns apologised for some comments made in the media.<\/p>\n

The manager was back on the sidelines to oversee Dublin’s 1-24 to 0-16 All-Ireland SFC Round 2B win over Cavan<\/a> at Kingpan Breffni Park after his 12-week suspension expired on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Brennan had been banned for an incident, an altercation involving contact with Galway’s strength and conditioning coach, during a league match at the end of March.<\/p>\n

The issue was stoked three weeks ago when Donegal boss Jim McGuinness escaped a sanction for what many considered a similar infraction at half-time of their win over Kerry.<\/p>\n

Burns spoke about the issue on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 two weeks ago and said that comparisons between the two incidents was “irrational”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That led to Brennan issuing a statement through his solicitor reflecting that he felt the suggestion that it was “irrational” to compare the incidents was “insulting”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ban meant that Brennan was unable to partake in any GAA activities including underage coaching.<\/p>\n

Asked about the last 12 weeks, the former Dublin captain (below) was eager to move on.<\/p>\n

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“Grand. Yeah, just getting on with sport again,” he told RT\u00c9 Sport.<\/p>\n

“Well look, my solicitor issued a statement last week and I don’t really have a whole lot more to say on it.<\/p>\n

“Some lovely bits of support from around the country, friends, family, the county board and the management team and what not.<\/p>\n

“To be fair to Jarlath Burns, he did ring me last week, we had a very sincere, honest, friendly conversation.<\/p>\n

“He apologised, I accepted it.<\/p>\n

“We move on and concentrate on the football from here on in and then Congress 2027 is probably an opportunity to try and put [issues about the severity of the sanction] right.<\/p>\n

“I just want to concentrate on football going forward.”<\/p>\n

In Brennan’s absence, interim manager Dean Rock oversaw a meandering campaign that included a Leinster final loss to Westmeath, and a qualifier defeat to Louth, both games at Croke Park.<\/p>\n

However, they were able to pull away from a lively Cavan side after an even first half to book a place in Monday’s Round 3 draw.<\/p>\n

Donegal and Armagh both lost this weekend in shock results but Brennan was not interested in how those defeats affect the Dubs’ chances of a first All-Ireland since 2023.<\/p>\n

“Look, we’re just focussing on the next game, the draw tomorrow and see who we get,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’m not aware of some of the results bar the games yesterday, so we’ll see who we get in the draw tomorrow and we’ll just take it one game at a time.”<\/p>\n

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\nDermot McCabe and Ger Brennan shake hands after the match<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Cavan manager Dermot McCabe was left to rue his side’s inefficiency in front of goal as their season came to an end.<\/p>\n

“I suppose up to half-time or up to about 45 minutes, I thought we were very much in the battle and doing a lot of things well,” he said.<\/p>\n

“We were in a little bit of difficulty in probably gaining possession from our own kick-outs, but the lads were working extremely hard in what was a very difficult and warm day.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately it’s our efficiency in front of goals, we had a few drop-shorts and a few wides at times when there was maybe two or three points in it.<\/p>\n

“It sucked a little bit of the life out of us and probably our supporters who were out strong today for us.<\/p>\n

“If we had got them scores, maybe I think it was 17-14 for a little while or 18-15 around that sort of time, I think we could have got back on level terms and it probably sucked the life out of us.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ger Brennan says he wants to move on from the recent controversy over his ban and revealed that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-499624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","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\/499624","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=499624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}