Conor Neville: Let’s not dive overboard in the war on sledging

What constitutes sledging? The buzzword-in-chief of the 2015 championship made an unexpected intrusion into Newstalk’s build-up to the weekend’s hurling.

Daithí Regan broadcast the contents of a conversation between himself and Brian Gavin in which the referee alleged that everyone had misunderstood the reason he had booked Joe Canning in the Tullamore replay against Dublin.

It was naturally assumed that Canning had been yellow-carded following a wrestling match on the ground with Dublin goalkeeper Alan Nolan.