Fergal Boland of Mayo
Fergal Boland will miss Mayo’s next two championship games after he failed to overturn a two-game suspension for striking with the elbow with force in their All-Ireland SFC Group 2 fixture with Roscommon.
And Connaire Mackin will have to sit out Armagh’s Group 1 game against Galway in Sligo after he too failed to overturn a one-game ban at a Central Hearings Committee meeting last night.
Mackin had been retrospectively charged after the Central Competition Controls Committee examined the contact between his boot and Conor Glass’ head as the Derry midfielder was on the ground during their recent meeting in Celtic Park.
Boland was sent off when referee Barry Cassidy’s attention was drawn to an incident by his line umpire Maggie Farrelly late in their game.
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Mayo manager Kevin McStay cast doubt on the identity, claiming he knew nothing about “human nature” if Boland did what was alleged that merited the sending off.
Footage did show contact but was very much open to question as to whether it was “with force” which carries a two-game ban instead of one.
Unless he successfully appeals the decision now Boland will miss Sunday’s final Group 2 game against Dublin and either an All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final or an All-Ireland quarter-final, depending on Sunday’s result.
A third player, Clare midfielder Daniel Bohannon, was sent off against Tyrone in the last round for ‘behaving in a way that is dangerous to an opponent.’ He too failed to overturn a proposed one-game ban and will miss tomorrow’s game against Donegal.
