Dublin GAA chief criticises 'media commentary' of collective training breach

Last spring, some members of the Dublin senior football panel were in breach of the Covid-19 guidelines when they had a light training session in Innisfails club.
Dublin GAA chief criticises 'media commentary' of collective training breach

Dublin Chief Executive John Costello 

Dublin GAA chief John Costello has questioned "the level, intensity and tone of some of the media commentary" that followed revelations that members of the county's senior football panel held a collective training session in breach of Covid-19 protocols.

Though Mr. Costello insisted that he was not attempting "to defend the indefensible", he questions in his report to Dublin's annual convention if other teams who were also in breach of such regulations were treated in the same manner by the media. 

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