RTÉ hurling analyst Shane McGrath has said that he feels any potential Dublin appeal over Chris Crummey's red card against Limerick has no chance of success.
The player was sent off after 15 minutes of his side’s famous win at Croke Park, and while it is yet to be confirmed whether Dublin will appeal or not, McGrath can’t see the Lucan man appearing in the All-Ireland semi-final against Cork.
While there has been no argument about Crummey’s raised elbow, there’s been debate over the level of contact with Gearóid Hegarty with Liam Rushe saying "I’d question how much (contact), how physical that is" on The Saturday Game.
"He’s not playing in the semi-final," McGrath said on the RTÉ GAA podcast.
"I’d be contradicting myself if I said he should get away with it when I was saying during the league that these head high tackles (need to stop).
"I suppose you’re putting yourself in a situation that you don’t want to.
"It was just a moment thing. As soon as the elbow went up, no more so than when Darragh McCarthy’s hurley went up against Cork, he was getting sent off."
On the game itself, Walsh felt that the boon of such a victory is almost immeasurable when it comes to promoting hurling in the capital.
"It’s ten years of development in one match," he said.
"You could have the next 10 years going around to schools and going around clubs in Dublin and asking people to get into hurling, and what you had there on Saturday was that rolled into one.
"Imagine if Ireland went to a World Cup and knocked Brazil out in the quarter-final, everyone in the country wants to play soccer then."
Follow a live blog on the All-Ireland Football Championship quarter-finals on Saturday on rte.ie/sport and the RTÉ News app. Listen to commentaries on Saturday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1. Watch highlights on The Saturday Game at 9.30pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player
Watch two All-Ireland Football Championship quarter-finals, Meath v Galway and Armagh v Kerry, from 1.15pm on Sunday on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player. Follow a live blog on rte.ie/sport and the RTÉ News app. Listen to commentaries on Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1. Watch highlights on The Sunday Game at 10.15pm on RTÉ2 and RTÉ Player
