McEnaney tells refs to ignore Twitter criticism

Referees chief Pat McEnaney has told his officials not to respond to criticism of them by players on Twitter.

The Monaghan man recently informed referees that the National Referees Committee won’t be countering the derogatory remarks made about some of their members’ performances by inter-county players on the social networking site.

Explaining why, he cited the recent example of Welsh rugby referee Nigel Owens taking umbrage on Twitter with some of the newspaper comments made about his officiating in the second Test between Ireland and New Zealand.