Limerick fume over penalty “travesty of justice” that turned the tide

THE CONTROVERSIAL penalty in the dying seconds of the first half proved to be Kerry’s escape route and the end of the line for Limerick in yesterday’s ultra-dramatic Munster SFC Final replay at Fitzgerald Stadium, Killarney.

“I was absolutely astonished that the referee awarded that penalty,” said Limerick manager Liam Kearns as he came to terms with their calamitous loss to the Kingdom.

Team captain Tommy Stack was adjudged to have pulled Colm Cooper’s jersey - “a travesty of justice”, Kearns believed. “We deserved to have been at least four or five points to the good at the interval, and that penalty will haunt us. It was a real killer blow.