Brendan Cawley awarding Galway a 66th-minute free for an apparent touch on the ground by Donegal’s Ciaran Thompson was a huge call.
DONEGAL MANAGER Jim McGuinness said he wasn’t happy with a number of refereeing decisions as Galway edged a tense All-Ireland semi-final.
Advertisement “You guys will know that I don’t sort of make comments about referees, I try to stay away from that,” said McGuinness initially when asked about Cawley’s performance and the Thompson decision. “Everybody has got their job to do. I think there were a number today that we wouldn’t have been happy with. In the first minute, Ryan McHugh was breaking through, there were two men pulling at him, he blew him for over-carrying.
“I suppose the summary of it will be that we converted five out of 14 in the second-half, and converted 10 from 14 in the first-half,” he said. “We ran out of steam a wee bit coming down the stretch I think. I think Galway looked a bit more battle-hardened than us, maybe that experience of a couple of years ago was beneficial to them.”
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