Owens: Red cards harsh

Not one harsh sending-off but two, that was the response of Kilcormac-Killoughey manager Danny Owens to the red cards his midfielders, Killian Leonard and Damien Kilmartin, received in yesterday’s AIB All-Ireland Club SHC final.

“We lost two men and I don’t know what kind of rules he was working off,” Owens said.

“The first yellow card for Damien Kilmartin was unbelievably hard. The second one was fair enough. I thought that the sending-off [Leonard’s] was amazing. It was a harsh red card. You are here on All-Ireland final days and something like that, there wouldn’t even be a second thought about it.