Aidan O'Mahony has added his voice to calls in Kerry for the GAA not to appoint David Gough as referee for the All-Ireland final.

It’s time to take the advice of the five men quoted below and double the guards, writes John Fogarty

Tipperary GAA chiefs have been urged to nail down Liam Kearns as the county’s senior football team manager for 2017 — amid loose speculation that his native Kerry could make an approach for his services.

The journey is over for now, but if Liam Kearns and his men were told at the start of this difficult year that they would play in front of almost 54,000 people in Croke Park on All-Ireland semi-final day, they would have accepted that scenario with open arms.

Monaghan 1-9 Kerry 1-17: This is March but this is also progress for Kerry.

Kieran Donaghy says referee David Coldrick should not have worn a microphone in a game as important as last year’s All-Ireland final.

The furore around an alleged All-Ireland final incident between Philly McMahon and Kieran Donaghy was reopened last night after revealing audio emerged from a RTÉ documentary.

Kerry have no issue with Meath’s David Coldrick being appointed to referee Sunday week’s All-Ireland final despite the match official both living and working in Dublin.

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In February of last year, Kerry were chasing a late equalising point against Dublin in their opening Division 1 game in Croke Park when Aidan O’Mahony fell to the ground in the hope of persuading David Coldrick to award him a free.

Of the three televised games this weekend, the most difficult match to officiate was the Donegal v Derry Ulster semi-final in Clones.

David Coldrick will have been pleasantly surprised by the sporting nature of his Ulster Championship game at the Athletic Grounds and to see Donegal playing down the clock from the 60th minute.

The lid was flipped. The usually unruffled Brian McEniff had blown his right off.

Referee David Coldrick could be at the centre of a second derogatory comments case after Brian McIver’s post-match interviews in Omagh on Saturday.

There are three changes to the Cork senior hurling side for tomorrow night’s Allianz Hurling Division 1A clash with Clare in Páirc Uí Rinn.

Tipperary manager Peter Creedon has been slapped with a one-match touchline ban for his recent criticism of referee David Coldrick.

The GAA hope to plug one of the biggest loopholes in their disciplinary system at next week’s Congress. 

Tipperary football boss Peter Creedon will be asked to explain his recent comments about referee David Coldrick in Dublin this evening.

Tipperary manager, Peter Creedon could be the first manager to be issued with a sideline ban following his remarks about referee David Coldrick in the wake of Tipperary’s controversial one-point defeat to Armagh in the opening round of the Allianz Football League on Sunday.

Tipperary manager Peter Creedon’s scathing criticism of referee David Coldrick could see him facing a sideline ban.

Armagh 2-8 Tipperary 0-13: Allianz Football League Division 3: Drama, controversy and passion enveloped the Athletic Grounds yesterday as Armagh staged a Lazarus-like injury-time recovery to snatch an unlikely victory from the jaws of defeat – and leave Tipperary manager Peter Creedon shell-shocked

All-Ireland final referee Barry Kelly believes a less tolerant society is contributing to much more intense pressure on match officials.

ALL-IRELAND SFC SEMI-FINAL REPLAY:

All-Ireland football semi-final day. Home in front of the telly.

David Coldrick succeeded in getting a high percentage of calls right in yesterday’s All-Ireland semi-final.

By Peter O’Dwyer

Down 0-11 Kildare 1-18

Hard to believe, but it’s 25 years since David Elleray, the Harrow headmaster who spent his Saturdays admonishing a very different class of brat, was wired for sound for ITV’s World In Action programme on a First Division game between Millwall and Arsenal at the old Den.

No championship football referee was reprimanded at Wednesday night’s meeting of match officials.

The tackle is a skill by which one or more players may dispossess an opponent or frustrate his objective within the rules of fair play. A tackle is aimed at the ball, not the player. A tackler may use his body to confront the opponent but deliberate bodily contact such as punching, slapping, arm holding, pushing, tripping, jersey pulling or a full frontal charge is forbidden.

Championship football referees will be told their handling of the black card must improve at next month’s meeting of the 16 match officials.

It’s getting silly now. No, we don’t mean the administration of the black card in championship games. Joe McQuillan has shown himself like David Coldrick to be quite the human. Boo. Shame on him.

Peter Canavan says David Coldrick’s mistake in Omagh on Sunday has backed up his concerns about the black card.

Some might say it was a curse. Before David Coldrick there was Kevin Walsh.

Tyrone 2-11 Down 3-8

Dublin 2-8 Kerry 1-10

In the end it was no more than a rehearsal but that didn’t stop some reviewing the black card’s debut like it was its opening weekend.

Leading inter-county football referee David Coldrick has pleaded with the GAA to abide by the new playing rules and support match officials.

All-Ireland quarter-final weekends are big ones for the referees as well as the teams involved as it’s usually from this quartet that the final official is selected.

The dynamic for Jim Gavin’s meeting with the press was different to Conor Counihan, obviously enough.

Monaghan 0-13 Donegal 0-07

Derry 1-15 Down 2-17

David Coldrick had his best game of the year in yesterday’s All-Ireland semi-final.

Joe McQuillan, who refereed last year's All-Ireland SFC final, will be in charge of the upcoming semi-final clash between defending champions Dublin and Connacht title holders Mayo.