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Brian Gavin: Red card for Galway's David Burke was wrong and Kilkenny penalty was mystifying

Pushing the use of technology to assist referees really should be a pressing matter for Cork now having felt the sting of that call in the Munster U20 final. 
Referee Colm Lyons shows a red card to David Burke of Galway during the Leinster SHC against Kilkenny at Nowlan Park. Picture: ©INPHO/Ben Brady

Referee Colm Lyons shows a red card to David Burke of Galway during the Leinster SHC against Kilkenny at Nowlan Park. Picture: ©INPHO/Ben Brady

Calling it straight, I wouldn’t have sent off David Burke in Pearse Stadium on Sunday.

Not because it was a massive decision that had a crucial bearing on what may as well have been a knock-out game but because I saw no intent in him to injure Fergal Whitely.

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