Deegan in spotlight amid huge foul count at Celtic Park

NO-ONE likes to see a referee dominate the conversation after a game but it was impossible to skirt around the role played by Maurice Deegan during yesterday’s events in Celtic Park.

The county Laois official awarded 69 frees in the course of 73 or so minutes, a horrendously high figure, even in Gaelic football where the average hovers somewhere between the high-30s and mid-40s.

Deegan is no cub either.