Tomás Ó Sé Has Say On Nasty Incident From Mayo - Galway Game | Balls.ie

Mayo booked their place in the All-Ireland Football Championship quarter-finals today, with a 1-10 to 0-12 win over Galway at Pearse Stadium.

After Galway had taken a comfortable lead in at half-time, Mayo rallied back in a big in the second-half, scoring an unanswered 1-05, before holding off a late Galway revival.

A major talking point before the game was the fitness of Galway captain Sean Kelly, who injured is ankle in last week's game against Armagh, and was a massive injury doubt.

While he togged out today, he did not look entirely comfortable, and in a particularly nasty incident, Mayo's Ryan O'Donoghue appeared to target his injured ankle, although the video evidence is not entirely conclusive.

Tomás Ó Sé And Sean Cavanagh Discuss O'Donoghue Challenge On Sean Kelly

'Has he a case to answer? Probably yeah' - Ó Sé and Cavanagh on that incident at the start of the second half involving Ryan O'Donoghue and Sean Kelly

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In the Sunday's Game studios, Tomás Ó Sé and Sean Cavanagh discussed the incident, with Ó Sé of the opinion that O'Donoghue does has a case to answer for, but he unwilling to go as far as to say the targeting of Kelly's injured ankle was intentional.

There was an awful lot of talk last weekend about Sean Kelly leaving Leitrim with his ankle in a boot. This has popped up in front of us. It happened at the start of the second-half.

There's two questions for me: does Ryan O'Donoghue look down, and does he make contact? In my opinion, yes. Maybe not 100 percent conclusive from the pictures, but Kelly reacts.

Was it intentional? Only one man can answer that.

There was pushing and shoving going on all over the pitch. And there's been incidents last week, there's been incidents in the Cork game, the Armagh match.

Has he a case to answer for there? Probably yes.....It did look like he was looking down, it did look like he made contact, make what you want of it.

Cavanagh was slightly more diplomatic than Ó Sé, and was hesitant to give a definitive call on whether O'Donoghue's actions were intentional, until we get more conclusive footage.

"I'll always be a little hesitant to be conclusive without seeing what that foot movement was," said Cavanagh.

"It did look as if Sean Kelly grimaced a wee bit, but at the same time it takes two to tango and there was four men tangling there so I wouldn't like to be overly conclusive until we see the pictures."