Dublin will be appealing the one-match ban accrued by Eoghan O'Gara after he received a straight red card in the win over Donegal.

O'Gara was dismissed by referee Ciaran Brannagan in the second half following an altercation with Neil McGee, who was issued with a yellow card.

Manager Jim Gavin confirmed that Dublin will be appealing the decision in a bid to have the attacker available for the All-Ireland SFC semi-final against Kerry on August 28.

"I think so, yeah (Dublin will appeal)," he said.

"The players know my feeling about if you raise your hand and make contact with somebody's head, that you are going to get sent off and get no sympathy from me."

Commenting on Diarmuid Connolly's dismissal on a second yellow card, Gavin said: "It was a source of disappointment that for a team that wants to play the game the way we want to that we, Dublin, end up with 13 men. That is the surprising bit I find. It is probably a question you need to ask the officials on that one.

"It was all very predictable going into it; we all knew that some of our players would receive special attention. That was the case. It was up to the officials to act upon it. If they don't, the eight of them, four umpires and four men in black, if they don't act upon it they are letting the players down on the pitch. On both sides by the way."

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