RTÉ chiefs say analysts were not contacted by Wallace

RTÉ bosses have asked pundits on The Sunday Game if inter-county managers are asking them to play down the seriousness of incidents in games following comments by Antrim senior hurling manager Jerry Wallace earlier in the week.

Wallace said last Monday he had contacted panellists on The Sunday Game last week to ask them to play down the seriousness of events in the Antrim-Westmeath Leinster SHC clash two weeks ago.

During that game Antrim player Cormac Donnelly, who was unavailable to play, was a maor foirne for the northern side but got involved with a Westmeath player, an incident for which he was later suspended for eight weeks.