Ó Sé accepts four-week ban

GAA: Tomás Ó Sé will miss the All-Ireland quarter-finals after the Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) recommended…

GAA:Tomás Ó Sé will miss the All-Ireland quarter-finals after the Central Competitions Control Committee (CCCC) recommended handing him a four-week ban following an incident in the Munster football final on Sunday. The Kerry defender will not appeal the ban.

The An Gaeltacht clubman clashed with Stephen Kelly on a number of occasions and connected with the Limerick man in an elbow-led lunge in the 19th minute at Fitzgerald Stadium.

The incident was missed by referee Pat Fox but picked up by the cameras and highlighted on television. Having investigated the matter, the CCCC asked Fox to review the incident and subsequently proposed a four-week sanction.

"Tomás Ó Sé has been notified by the CCCC that he has been charged with a Category Two Offence (striking with the elbow),” the Kerry county board confirmed this morning. "The proposed penalty is suspension for one month and the next game. Tomás Ó Sé is not seeking a hearing."

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With Ó Sé declining the option of a personal hearing, he will join teammate Paul Galvin in the stands for the defending champions All-Ireland quarter-final over the August bank holiday weekend.