When there are two dressing rooms on each side at Croke Park, and bearing in mind the Covid situation, why isn’t one team coming out from under the Cusack Stand?

It was a weekend of fine margins from a refereeing perspective. You might say “what’s new” but it was a hurling provincial final weekend and at least one decision that went the way of Limerick proved to be telling.

When referees convened last Thursday, I was hopeful some common sense would prevail

I would make a calculated guess and suggest James Owens was only following the penalty/sin bin interpretation he was given in the referees’ group

It will be interesting to see if there is any feedback from the referees development committee about Colm’s decision because if this is going to be an example of what to do in such a situation then we’re going to run into huge problems

The average amount of frees in a game would be around 25 to 30. On Saturday, the number in Mullingar was 38 and 34 in Limerick

Retired hurling referee Brian Gavin reviews the changes to hurling's rule book

If anything, McDaid was a tad unfortunate to be sent to the bin for 10 minutes for his body collision on Kevin McLoughlin

Overall, it was a satisfactory outing by Fergal and it was made easier because the result wasn’t in doubt from a good bit out

Expected results in this weekend’s All-Ireland semi-finals but a strange couple of days, nevertheless.