Monaghan great Conor McManus has welcomed the new rule making a jersey pull one of the prescribed goal-scoring opportunity denying offences. Although it has been described by Wicklow manager Oisín McConville as “nonsense”, McManus understands the merit in it. “You see the black card and the deliberate pull-down and then there was a way around it whereby you pulled but you stayed on your feet. “By the letter of the law, it probably is still a cynical foul and still cynical play. We've had good joy with development squads, minor squads, and U20 squads, things like that.

Source: Irish Examiner January 21, 2026 18:00 UTC