Suspension severity surprises Cork boss

Cork minor football manager Diarmuid O’Donovan has hit out at the severity of suspensions handed out by the GAC.

Cork minor football manager Diarmuid O’Donovan has hit out at the severity of suspensions handed out by the GAC.

Cork minor captain Andrew O’Sullivan received a 12-week suspension, Michael Shields and Ray Carey both received eight-week suspensions, while selector Keith Ricken was handed down a 48-week ban.

“I am surprised at the severity of the suspensions handed down in some instances, because it doesn’t equate with what other people did. I still hold that our players got caught up in a situation that was not of our making and were only thinking about playing extra-time, when everything went off,” the Cork manager told the Evening Echo newspaper.

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