MUCH

was made of the fact that Louth’s Ryan Burns was hit with a 12-week ban this week, even though the incident which got him in hot water had not been highlighted on the Sunday Game.

But in the rush to get a dig in at Jim Gavin and Dublin, the sense that Burns got a raw deal was conveniently brushed over.

As with Connolly, he was charged with ‘minor physical interference of a match official’ after he appeared to have kicked the ball dead in frustration in the closing minutes of his team’s qualifier defeat to Longford, but it ended up hitting an umpire.

To construe it as a deliberate act seemed a stretch and, if it was, with that kind of accuracy, Louth would surely still be with us.