The seven time All-Ireland winner Dean Rock was talking to the media yesterday ahead of the resumption of the National League and accepted that the training sessions that took place in the month of April shouldn’t have happened.

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“It obviously created a lot of attention and rightfully so,” Rock said yesterday. “It was a deeply regrettable incident that never should have happened and it’s something that we regret.

“Hindsight is a wonderful thing and after experiencing it now, it should never have happened and would never happen again so it’s something that we’ve taken accountability for and taken the punishment.

“Sometimes as an inter-county footballer you maybe think that it’s the most important thing out there and the only important thing going on, whereas on reflection and in hindsight, there’s far more important things in life than Gaelic football and sport.

“That’s one of the big learnings for me to take away from it and I know that’s the same for the lads as well. It’s just one of those things that never should have happened, it did happen, we apologised and we’re just looking forward to moving on.”