Brendan Cawley: People build platforms on constantly being negative towards GAA referees
Referee Brendan Cawley admitted there were two decisions from this year's All-Ireland football which in hindsight he believes were harsh. Pic: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile
Brendan Cawley was a line umpire for a Kildare junior championship game played at Hawkfield recently. As he walked off the pitch, Cawley, who refereed his first All-Ireland football final this year, "got a bit of abuse".
"Another club were playing on the other pitch in Hawkfield, and three ladies turned around to me and go, 'my God, from an All-Ireland final to this'. That's, that's the reality of it," Cawley told Irish Examiner podcast The Gaelic Football Show.
