U21 coach blasts refereeing

LIMERICK U21 coach Ollie Coffey has blasted refereeing standards and claimed that too many “decisions tend to go against the weaker counties”.

Coffey made his comments after Saturday’s Munster championship defeat to Kerry at Austin Stack Park.

He was especially incensed by Derek O’Mahony’s decision to award Kerry a penalty for an alleged leg block minutes before the interval. Coffey said: “How he could award Kerry a penalty just before half time baffles me. It was no penalty. The football struck one of our defenders on the leg rather than he put his leg out to block it. Justice was done as the Kerry lad drove it wide.