Noel O’Donoghue, from the Cuala club in Dublin, enjoyed a stellar refereeing career that spanned over 30 years, taking charge of the 1980 and 1982 All-Ireland SHC finals in that time. Today, the 76-year-old will operate the HawkEye score detection technology when Tipperary and Kilkenny lock horns at GAA HQ...

At the behest of a reader and a Kilkenny friend of ours, we took another look at Barry Kelly’s decision to overturn a Tipperary 65 last Sunday week. 

Kilkenny legend Eddie Keher and referees chief Pat McEnaney have taken issue with the Hurling 2020 committee’s proposal to make a second yellow card an automatic substitution offence — but for different reasons.

After canvassing opinion, Eddie Keher has delivered a document to the GAA calling for the end of yellow and red cards in hurling

Referee Joe McQuillan has defended his handling of the final moments of last Sunday's All-Ireland SFC final between Dublin and Mayo at Croke Park.

Former Kilkenny star Eddie Brennan believes referees should be allowed to use video evidence to help make important decisions such as sendings-off.

Former All-Ireland winning Clare manager Ger Loughnane is adamant National Referees Association chairman Pat McEnaney should have “nothing to do” with hurling.

Having watched five hurling games this weekend — three live and two on TV, I have a lot of sympathy for referees in how they make a distinction between what’s a free and what’s legitimate.

A defiant Pat McEnaney has dismissed suggestions he is attempting to sanitise the game of hurling.

‘The buck always stops with the manager’

Dropping Greaves a brave call

Former All-Ireland winning Clare captain and current Dublin hurling boss, Anthony Daly

He hasn’t discovered any short cuts. The familiar signposts — Mallow, Buttevant, Charleville — still mark the winding road from Cork to Limerick and John Allen has seen a lot of them in recent months.

The GAA’s new referees committee chairman Pat McEnaney says his match officials must earn respect and not expect to be given it by players.

On Thursday night, as Ger Loughnane left Cusack Park following Clare’s easy win over Cork in the Munster minor championship, one would presume the result would be a source of satisfaction.

Retired inter-county referee Dickie Murphy claims the increased physicality of hurlers has made officiating more difficult for referees.

A FORMER top inter-county official has called on Croke Park to rid its games of verbal abuse towards referees.

THE conversation with an inter-county hurler had wound onto referees.

IT wasn’t how he’d like it to have happened – we all like to leave on our terms, regardless of situation – but the confirmation he hasn’t made the nominated top 10 hurling referees for the championship has nevertheless been greeted with his usual good grace by Dickie Murphy.

Cork 0-18 Kilkenny 1-13

OPPOSITION to the experimental rules in hurling is beginning to snowball with Antrim manager Terence ‘Sambo’ McNaughton just the latest high-profile figure to call for a retention of the old playing laws.

Cork fans feel the GAA shunts them around the country too much, to matches that clash with other fixtures they want to see. They are angry about this and are demanding a ‘double header’ on 10th August to avoid this. Déise boys blowing kisses and tugging their crests. Even their own fans are starting to get angry about it. And Maurice Fitzgerald or John Doyle? The point is that a Kildare fan gets hot under his Lily White collar.

THEY only remember your mistakes.

MUNSTER Council has announced the referees for the two big senior hurling championship games on June 1 and 8.

A CELEBRITY hall of fame will be on show next week at Waterford Institute of Technology’s sports hall — and all for a worthy cause.

This year has produced the best hurling championship in some time, according to GAA President Nickey Brennan.

THE upholding of the seven appeals from Dublin and Tyrone players by the Central Appeals Committee was clearly embarrassing for the GAA.

THE GAA should utilise modern technology to develop a sliothar fitted with a microchip to monitor its flight, a national refereeing spokesman declared.

SCRAP the minor and Under-21 championships - that’s the considered view of new Mayo manager Mickey Moran, who believes that the abandonment of these competitions would help to prolong the inter-county careers of a lot of players.

Brendan Larkin

ANTHONY DALY and his more senior players will make no impulse decisions over their futures with Clare, according to captain Sean McMahon.

GALWAY minor manager Mattie Murphy is hugely disappointed at the decision not to play the All-Ireland hurling semi-finals in Croke Park as curtain-raisers to the senior games.

GAA President Sean Kelly is adamant that the future of the controversial Tommy Murphy Cup is secure.

HURLING referees are especially unhappy about what is perceived as the severity of the penalty of dismissing a player after just one yellow card in the new experimental rules.

John Conran has resigned as manager of the Wexford senior hurling team.

The Wexford county board will meet next Tuesday night to discuss the future of John Conran as the Model County's hurling manager.

LIMERICK county board chairman Pat Fitzgerald will, surprisingly, not be seeking re-election at the December convention.