Davy Fitzgerald slammed the performance of referee James McGrath after Clare's Munster SHC semi-final loss to Cork.

And the Banner boss also seemed to make reference to the National Referees' Committee when calling for "one or two bodies" to be investigated.

"Cork seemed to get a few soft frees which put them ahead early on. Their two goals came from frees. We were finding it a small bit harder to get frees," he fumed.

"The second goal came off Aidan Walsh fielding a ball he shouldn't have got. He should not have been able to field a ball the way he did, got it in and I suppose James McGrath couldn't wait to blow the whistle then to give them a penalty. Cork won but I am pointing out the obvious things to you as well, so I am."

Fitzgerald accepted, however, that Clare were beaten by the better team.

"I am not going to hide behind any issues. At the end of the day Cork were better on the field of play, so they were. It doesn't matter about decisions or lack of decisions, they were the better team today and I really feel that, but there are some things that badly need to be looked into in the GAA and one or two bodies need to be looked into.

"Listen, I will deal with this in my own way. There is something I might speak about at the end of the year. There is something that is going to have to be looked at because I knew something was going to happen today before the game even happened. If you know that going into a game you are wasting your time." Tweet

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