Comment: Kevin McStay’s actions out of order

The main talking point of the weekend from an officiating perspective took place at Dr Hyde Park on Saturday evening where Kevin McStay showed his frustration after Roscommmon didn’t get a free when Donegal’s Stephen McMenamin appeared to foul Diarmuid Murtagh.

Referee Ciaran Branagan, who had a mixed day, should certainly have awarded a free and though McStay’s irritation was perhaps justified, making his feelings known to linesman Niall Cullen wasn’t the way to go about it. Linesmen are not in a position to award frees and that’s a fact that seems to be lost on a lot of people. Therefore, for me, McStay’s actions were wrong.