Kieran Shannon: We must all do better when it comes to referees

When we grumble we’ve to ensure it’s not loud or vehement enough for my son’s generation to be another that is reared on thinking the refs are there to be blamed rather than thanked

'An incident like what happened in Roscommon could have happened in any county. It could happen in any county.' Pic: Piaras Ó Mí­dheach/Sportsfile

Some habits and traditions die hard.

For so long we’d have all spent the first Sunday of September either in or looking in on events from Croke Park. A football semi-final or that most glorious of Irish institutions and occasions: the All Ireland hurling final.