O’Neill takes swipe at referee

DR Crokes manager Harry O’Neill criticised Tipperary referee Derek O’Mahony for the amount of injury-time he played at the end of yesterday’s Munster Club SFC final in Mallow.

“I was questioning the referee. Where did he get three minutes? We were confident we would have five minutes injury-time. There was a lot of time wasting from the goalkeeper and they had a couple of injuries where players stayed down for a long time. To come up with three minutes was strange. If we had that extra couple of minutes, then who knows because we were in the ascendancy, we had them under pressure.”

O’Neill admitted his team faced too great a task in the second-half after they were wiped out by a superior Nemo Rangers side in the opening period. The Dr Crokes manager also insisted that the absence of injured midfielder Johnny Buckley was not the primary reason for their first-half demise.