Dessie Farrell has described the renewed debate over whether Dublin should be split as a "distraction" that he is avoiding.
Former Dubs boss Pat Gilroy raised the issue again on The Sunday Game last weekend in a discussion on the county's dominance but current Blues supremo Farrell said: "To be honest it's something I don't give any consideration to.
"It's a little bit like when Covid hit - whatever it is, it is. You've got to deal with it and face it at the time.
"There's going to be people who will have opinions on that and people who will make decisions on that in the future.
"For us in terms of the team, we keep the head down and we get on and we prepare for the next one and the next one and the next one and that's the way it has to be.
"Otherwise it becomes noise and a distraction and there's others better paid and better placed to make those types of calls."
Farrell reiterated his hope that family members could be allowed into Croke Park for the two senior All-Ireland finals, or that at least a discussion would be held at the highest levels about it.
"I think it's something that the hurlers who are playing this weekend, the Mayo and Dublin players would like to see," he said.
"Obviously we understand there's challenges around that and all we were hoping for is that that would be considered and that a discussion would take place at the right level and whatever the decision is, the decision is and we'll respect that."
On dealing with Covid in his first year at the helm, Farrell admitted he did return to the set-up after the first lockdown wondering how his players' appetite for the fight would be affected.
Farrell said: "Obviously it's a concern and even when I was a player myself it's a question you asked as the season goes on, is the motivation still there, is the hunger and appetite still there?
"I think we set our stall out at the very beginning. We had that conversation around the sort of hunger, the appetite, the desire (we had).
"We developed a plan and we made ourselves accountable to executing that and that's what we've done.
"On that basis you'd have to say that it wasn't and it hasn't been an issue for me.
"Now and again there's individual conversations, for sure. But overall you'd have to be very pleased about how players have applied themselves and committed themselves in a very different type of season".
