Remorseful Rushe says strike on Horgan ‘like a scene from Gladiator’

Liam Rushe says he owes Cork forward Pat Horgan an apology for striking him last weekend, admitting that a replay of the Croke Park incident looked ‘like a scene from Gladiator’.

The Dublin defender accepted he should have been handed a straight red card, instead of a yellow, for his dangerous 58th minute pull on Horgan.

The incident came just eight minutes after referee James Owens had controversially dismissed Ryan O’Dwyer and Rushe suggested he was treated lightly as a result.