Six of the players suspended for two months for their part in the unseemly scenes in the match between Dublin and Meath have lost their appeals.
Meath's Seamus Kenny, Niall McKeigue, Shane McAnarney, Brendan Murphy and Nigel Crawford and Dublin's Bernard Brogan had their cases rejected at a sitting of the Central Appeals Committee last night.
The decision leaves Meath manager Colm Coyle without the five players for Sunday's Leinster championship opener against Carlow at Croke Park, and also, if Meath progress, the following match against Wexford in two weeks' time.
Brogan will miss Dublin's opening game against Louth on June 8th. Ciaran Whelan and Eamonn Fennell, who both chose to accept their eight-week suspensions, will also be absent as the Leinster champions get their campaign underway at headquarters.