Kildare forward Daniel Flynn has been ruled out of this weekend’s All-Ireland quarter-final group stage finale with Kerry after the GAA Central Hearings Committee handed him a one-game suspension for ‘attempting a strike with the hand’.
Flynn was sent off during the lilywhites three-point loss to Galway in Newbridge earlier this month for what appeared to be a strike on his marker off the ball in the second-half at St. Conleth’s Park.
Flynn will be afforded the opportunity to appeal his one game suspension to the Central Appeals Committee.
Statement from GAA Central Hearings Committee (30/7/2018) – Hearing 1 of 1: Daniel Flynn pic.twitter.com/UMUVqK7lUf
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Here's the incident that led to the red card for Daniel Flynn at St Conleth's Park.
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Kildare manager Cian O’Neill was not happy with the decision to dismiss Flynn and added that it was a ‘shocking’ call.
“They won by three points. We can have no argument, the score was what the score was,” O’Neill told The Sunday Game after the defeat.
“I just want to play credit to my guys, they battled bravely there. Another shocking decision, which wasn’t the referee’s call to send a player off (in) what I thought was a very well-contested and hard-fought match. To lose a player for 25 minutes like that in a battle, it’s just not on.
“And you really wonder why we train so hard and put the work in and then get treated like that from sideline officials, who seem to be more interested in maybe looking for something that’s not there than actually assisting the referee.”
