Dublin did not conduct post-match interviews after losing to Louth in the championship for the first time in 53 years.

The defeat, which was Dublin's second on the bounce at Croke Park, means they will be in tomorrow's All-Ireland Round 2B draw along with the other losing Round 1 teams. Those games will take place on the weekend after next and if Dublin are fixed to play on the Sunday, manager Ger Brennan will resume his duties after serving a 12-week suspension.

Speaking on The Sunday Game, former Dublin star Paul Flynn implied that there was a 'sense of injustice' in the Dublin camp over Donegal boss Jim McGuinness escaping a similar ban following his side's stormy encounter with Kerry.

“From my perspective, the rule, and I’m not always one to be harping on about different rules, but the rule is black and white," the Fingallians clubman said.

“And it just strikes everybody who sees it that it was black and white what happened. And that the GAA should be looking at it and Jim McGuinness should have the same fate as Ger Brennan has (gotten).

“That’s the fairness across the board that people are looking for. You think back and even last week Jim’s response to it in relation to how he treated the journalist Tommy Rooney, who was asking him the questions.

“And you’re saying like, he was a pundit before. I looked back at some of his old articles this week, where he was having a view on Diarmuid Connolly in a similar situation, flying that kite as he said it.

“So I just think it’s frustrating the way it’s all played out, that on one hand you see it and a guy gets off scot-free and it could easily be looked at.

“Then Ger is now facing a ban and obviously Dublin are feeling the effects of it.”

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