Pat McEnaney has praised referee Michael Duffy for his performance at Pearse Park on Sunday.

Duffy correctly disallowed a late Laois goal for a square-ball infringement and National Referees Committee chairman McEnaney comments in The Examiner:

"Michael Duffy correctly called that decision and it's what I expect from my referees. It's been a reasonably good start for us and that's the type of thing I'm looking for from my team.

"We had a get together last Friday where we did the fitness tests and all the referees had full medicals. We had a seminar afterwards and the square ball was one of the things that came up.

"I need to get the message out there that we, the referees, are very much in favour of the rule. It was tried and tested two years ago and it was every bit successful."

As for losing manager Justin McNulty's claims that the match official had made a number of hometown decisions, McEnaney added:

"We just deal with the issues. When we go into a game it's one team against the other. People will always throw opinions around but a referee has a clean sheet when he goes into a game." Tweet

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