Dara Smith-Naughton

This is Simon Lewis.

I think the story was originally reported in the Indo.

So obviously we knew that Billy Holland, Cillian Keane and Mick O'Driscoll had stepped away from the Professional Games Board, but further resignations from the voluntary members of its commercial advisory group have also followed and resigned.

The commercial advisory group is an informal voluntary group of business and industry people who advise Munster with its commercial activities and initiatives.

Munster can confirm some members of the commercial advisory group have resigned from their voluntary positions.

The statement didn't say why, but obviously it is in connection with their decision to hire Roger Randall as attack coach to replace Mike Prendergast this summer.

Patrick Horgan's got a column there as well.

And also interesting stuff from John Fogarty about Ger Brennan.

He's comparing previous suspensions.

Brennan seems to be a victim of the new rule, which has come in since 2023, that...

If you get one of these bans, it's from all GAA activity.

So the DRA upheld its 12-week ban plus the first two of the county's Division 2 games in 2027.

He's certain to miss a minimum of five matches, two provincial, one All-Ireland and two National League, a maximum of seven.

It'll climb to seven if Dublin beat Loud in Portlaoise in Saturday week's Leinster semi-final and the CCCC schedule their second round game for the Sambagora Cup for Saturday, June 13th.

His suspension elapses on the 14th of June.

So, you know, is this, is it a little bit, is it a little bit steep?

Yes.

You know, if you can't do the cry, you can't do the time, don't do the cry, I'm just like...

I mean, if he'd absolutely battered somebody, he'd have got the same suspension.

And I know people are saying he has to, Bradley's column at the weekend, you've got to own it, otherwise you won't be able to move past it.