John Kiely brushed off Aaron Gillane’s “ridiculous” sending off against Clare as Limerick’s disciplinary record came under the spotlight once again.
Following Gearoid Hegarty and Seamus Flanagan’s respective dismissals against Galway and Cork, both on straight red cards, they finished with 14 men for the third successive game, albeit Gillane suffered two yellow cards on this occasion.
The second yellow was brandished by referee Patrick Murphy in the 67th minute after Gillane clashed with Clare full-back Conor Cleary, who went to ground, with Limerick boss Kiely playing down the incident afterwards.
