The Offaly native and former inter-county hurling referee Brian Gavin said he “definitely would have” shown Gillane a red card. It’s an incident that has a lot of people talking after the Limerick vs Tipperary game at the Gaelic Grounds in Limerick. Brian Gavin said in his piece in The Examiner;
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“I understand that people believe it to be a 50-50 decision but the main problem I have with his foul was that he was pulling in the direction away from the Tipperary goal initially with two hands on the hurl. He went in with intent,” said Gavin.
Did the referee make the right call in the game? There’s still a lot of people animated over the incident