At Monday night's County Committee meeting Meath PRO Martin O'Halloran hit out against critical comments about Meath referee Cormac Reilly by Kevin McStay on the Sunday Game RTE programme. 

McStay took issue with a number of aspects of Reilly's handling of Saturday's All-Ireland SFC semi-final replay between his native Mayo and Kerry, describing the performance of the Donore official as 'appalling'.

"'Maybe he had another agenda," O'Halloran suggested, continuing "but tonight I am standing up for our man, our Meath official.

"Cormac had over 100 decisions to make over the course of the game. When the rules are changed to allow referees to view slow motion replays then I will accept Mr McStay's criticism."

A proposal from the PRO to send a letter to Croke Park requesting them to defend and protect officials and to take strong action against those who storm the playing field and threaten the safety of referees was passed.

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