Dan Shanahan: Diarmuid Kirwan’s no free call ‘tough to take’

Dan Shanahan admitted Diarmuid Kirwan’s decision not to award Jamie Barron a free in injury-time was “tough to take”.

“When you lose, it’s very hard to take. That’s being honest. Did we deserve to lose? I don’t think so. Our lads gave it everything but Clare got the luck of the draw today.”

On the incident, he said: “I’d rather not comment on that. I’ll leave that up to yourselves. It is tough to take. Not only that but there are a lot of decisions that have to be questioned. I’m not giving out, Clare won the game, we meet again in four weeks.”