Diarmuid Connolly: 'I would hope no-one would see me as a cynical player'

Diarmuid Connolly has admitted that back-to-back black cards have left him under a suspension cloud heading into the Championship with Dublin.

Connolly was dismissed just 15 minutes after coming on against Monaghan in Clones and lasted only 30 minutes of the Allianz League final defeat to Kerry at Croke Park.

He pulled back Peter Crowley and hauled him to the ground during an off-the-ball incident that Connolly acknowledged was down to “frustration on my part”.