Allen wants separate hurling refereeing body

Limerick manager John Allen has called for a separate refereeing body for hurling in the wake of the controversial dismissals of Cork’s Pat Horgan and Kilkenny’s Henry Shefflin this summer.

The issue of how strict or lenient referees should be has been a live debate going back to the no-holds barred All-Ireland finals between Kilkenny and Tipperary in recent years and beyond.

Pat McEnaney, the chairman of the National Referees Committee, stated last year there had been incidents in hurling where players should have been sent off but weren’t and Allen agreed with the notion that officials have clamped down since.