Cork boss Ryan feels ‘hard done by’ at eight week ban

CORK ladies football boss Eamonn Ryan believes he was ‘hard done by’ in being handed an eight-week suspension arising out of an incident at last month’s All-Ireland decider.

Ryan received the ban at a disciplinary meeting in Tullamore on Wednesday night after he was alleged to have been involved in an altercation with a Croke Park steward during Cork’s success over Dublin which completed a historic five-in-a-row of titles.

“It was alleged that I told an official, a guy in a yellow bib, to go away,” revealed Ryan yesterday. “They claimed I said it in unparliamentary language but I didn’t. I just told him to go away and that I was tired of all this. I think I was a bit hard done by. You might have wondered if I kicked him would I have only got four weeks. But I got my punishment and that’s it.