Counihan questions Kerrigan’s red card

He’s not normally the type to betray his emotions and, while Conor Counihan chose his words carefully, they could hardly mask his sense of frustration at Paul Kerrigan’s sending-off near half-time.

There was clearly a pair of transgressors when the Nemo man tangled with Armagh wing-back Finian Moriarty underneath the main stand but Kerrigan had the last word by motioning his head towards his opponents and the home support duly erupted.

It was a silly act by a man of his experience and one which would be rewarded with a no-questions-asked red card in the pampered world of the English Premier League but it merited nothing more than a caution.