Diarmuid Connolly accuses Graham Reilly of kicking him in the head and fans aren’t happy

Dublin were too good in the end.

Meath started brightly in the Leinster Football Championship semi-final at Croke Park but ultimately Dublin were too strong, running out winners by 0-21 to 0-11. Jim Gavin's side stepped up a gear in the second half and pulled away from Meath to set up a Leinster final against Westmeath, who had earlier seen off Kildare. While the match petered out in the end, as many of the 30,000+ fans in the stadium left early with the game all but over as a contest with 25 minutes to go, there were two moments of controversy in the first half. The first concerned Diarmuid Connolly, who appeared to be kicked in the head by Meath's Graham Reilly as he tumbled to the ground.

Certainly Connolly was convinced that he has been kicked by Reilly and reacted by jumping to his feet and barging into the Meath man who promptly fell to the floor. And speaking on The Sunday Game, Tomás Ó Sé was certain that Reilly should have seen red.

"When you see these things in slow motion, they are way worse looking but he does the draw the boot," he said. "It's a red card. The ball is well gone"

There was some agreement for Ó Sé's position on Twitter. https://twitter.com/kevjclarke/status/747138717626830848 Though many seemed to see it as a case of Connolly being up to his old tricks. https://twitter.com/LaobhaoiseNihE/status/747130782083342336 https://twitter.com/GaryTraynor1/status/747129781334990849 https://twitter.com/roisiiin/status/747129701949407232 https://twitter.com/Darth_Tacitus/status/747129592058642432 https://twitter.com/klally6/status/747131661943455744 Meath's Mickey Burke also could have seen red card for appearing to throw a punch at Ciaran Kilkenny. https://twitter.com/Conmort/status/747129947479736320 https://twitter.com/KentoCCFC/status/747130003582779393