Oisín McConville and Enda McGinley both reckon Jim McGuinness could be in hot water arising from an incident involving Diarmuid O’Connor in last Saturday’s stormy All-Ireland SFC Round 1 clash between Donegal and Kerry.

A furious McGuinness appeared to push the midfielder after his Kerry team-mate Micheál Burns was shown a straight red card for striking Ryan McHugh just before half-time in Killarney. McGuinness’ Dublin counterpart Ger Brennan is currently serving a 12-week ban for his part in a fracas with Galway S&C coach Cian Breathnach McGinn two months ago, meaning a precedent has been set.

"It's not even in doubt [there will be further action]," Wicklow manager McConville said on The GAA Social podcast.

"McGuinness is usually quite controlled on the sideline, but if you look at the Ger Brennan thing, the punishment does not fit the crime. Absolutely not. Three months, no involvement with the team, that was absolutely ridiculous.

"As a result of that, the GAA have created a precedent, and there's absolutely no doubt that they'll go after Jim McGuinness now. They haven't really left themselves any wriggle room."

Speaking on The Sunday Game, former Tyrone star McGinley suggested that the Donegal boss would now ‘feel a bit of heat’ over the incident, while he also wasn’t ruling a retrospective ban for David Clifford after a flashpoint with Caolan McGonagle.

“The Clifford one too, not the one at the end of the half, but the one in the middle of the half. Whenever you look and obviously slow-mos do many a thing a disservice, but it didn’t look good and again it’s up to the GAA now to set a precedent.

"We know the appeals has sort of lost any leniency and any turning over, so do they back themselves into a corner?” he said.

“But by the letter of the law that probably will merit a ban, but it’s whether they decide to do it, because then every decision the rest of the summer is going to be looked at.”

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