Horan’s timely reminder to ‘top-class’ referee McQuillan

Mayo manager James Horan made a guarded warning to Cavan referee Joe McQuillan not to use his association with the Dublin squad against his side in Sunday’s All-Ireland semi-final.

The Cavan whistler refereed four of Dublin’s six championship matches in their run to the All-Ireland last year and has been criticised for some of the decisions made against Kerry in the final. He is also known to have taken charge of several Dublin’s A versus B games this year as well.

Horan initially declared himself fine with the decision but added that the referees review committee would retrospectively look at any contentious issues.