Legend Ray Cummins blames reffing for lack of intensity in Cork hurling

“The slightest shoulder and there’s a free, but the refereeing is completely different at intercounty level.”

Former Cork hurling and football hero Ray Cummins is worried about the lack of intensity infecting the game of hurling in Cork at all levels.

Tomorrow, Cummins will be presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at a GPA lunch in Croke Park. And in a wide-ranging interview with Michael Moynihan in Saturday’s Irish Examiner Sport section, he bemoans the pace of hurling in Cork, particularly at club level, which he partly attributes to the style of refereeing.