Stephen McMenamin’s “sight was gone” following the incident with Tiernan McCann in Saturday’s Ulster semi-final, Donegal coach Karl Lacey has revealed.
The CCCC meets today and is set to pore over the video evidence which appeared to show the Tyrone wing-back’s fingers and then his foot making contact with Donegal defender McMenamin’s face and head while he was on the ground during the first half of his side’s four-point win.
Lacey explained: “He was sore when it happened. There was a possibility he might have been taken off, the sight was gone for a wee bit.
“But he's a tough boy, it would take a wee bit more than that to pull him off in an Ulster Championship game.”
He added: “I think he was a wee bit blurry [in his vision], that was the feedback we were getting. So we didn't know whether to get somebody on [or not]. But he was alright to continue.”
McCann could be in the dock for a Category III offence of “behaving in any way which is dangerous to an opponent”, which carries a minimum one-match ban, or a Category IV infraction of stamping, for which he would be suspended for at least two games if successfully charged.
“Ah listen, it was one of those things,” said Lacey. “I don't have too many comments on it. There's no place for that. We'll let the GAA deal with it now.
“It's just not nice to see in our game. It's important that things like that there are stamped out and I have the trust in the GAA that they'll deal with it and we'll not see that anymore.”
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