Dublin set to appeal Diarmuid Connolly red card

Dublin chairman Sean Shanley said they will in all likelihood contest Diarmuid Connolly’s red card in an attempt to make him available for Saturday’s All-Ireland semi-final.

Neither Dublin or Mayo have been served with proposed retrospective bans by the Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) although Connolly is understood to have been recommended a one-match ban.

Shanley, who also stated Dublin are likely to challenge at least one if not both of the black cards they picked up in the second-half, said they are all but certain to follow up on Joe McQuillan’s decision to dismiss Connolly after he became involved in an altercation with Lee Keegan in second half injury-time.