Offaly manager bites his tongue at referee’s ‘harsh’ decision

YOU expect players and managers to be bitterly disappointed minutes after losing a provincial title but Kevin Kilmurray and Karol Slattery cut more disconsolate figures than most of those who have suffered the same misfortune in Croke Park down the years.

The Offaly manager is an engaging and friendly character at the best of times but this obviously wasn’t one of those times.

His first game in charge of his native county was an O’Byrne Cup qualifier against Laois in Portlaoise two Januarys ago, a day when the experimental rules hamstrung his side’s hopes of success.