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Louth's Ryan Burns handed 12-week suspension for hitting an umpire with a football

Burns has been banned for “minor physical interference with an umpire.”

RYAN BURNS’S PROPOSED 12-week ban imposed for hitting an umpire with a football has been upheld, the GAA’s Central Hearings Committee (CHC) have confirmed.

Burns was sent-off late in Louth’s qualifier defeat to Longford on 17 June, when he fired a ball at an umpire in an act of frustration.

Burns caught the official on the thigh with the ball from about 20 yards away and was dismissed by referee Noel Mooney.

The GAA gave Louth’s top scorer of 2017 a 12-week ban for “minor physical interference with an umpire.”

Similar to Dublin’s Diarmuid Connolly, Burns appealed the decision to the CHC but the ban has been upheld. The ban commenced on 17 June.

Hunterstown Rovers star Burns is likely to miss the Louth IFC group stage, quarter-final and potentially the semi-final if they make it that far.

– First published 17.49

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