Brian Crowe (born 1957/1958) is a

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All-Ireland Final referee. He is a member of the

Cavan Gaels Cavan Gaels is a Gaelic Athletic Association club from Cavan Town, County Cavan in Ireland. They are affiliated to Cavan GAA. The club was founded in 1957 following the merging of two clubs in Cavan Town, Cavan Harps and Cavan Slashers. They are ...

club. Crowe played midfield and centre-forward for Cavan Gaels before retiring at the start of his twenties so that he could take up refereeing. He refereed the 2000 Connacht Senior Football Championship final, the 2003

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final. Club games refereed included the 2003 and 2005 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship finals and two Ulster Senior Club Football Championship finals. In 2006, he tipped

David Coldrick David Coldrick is a Gaelic football referee from County Meath. A member of the Blackhall Gaels club, he has refereed four finals of the All-Ireland SFC. Seán Moran, writing in ''The Irish Times'' in 2015, described Coldrick as "one of the l ...

(Meath), Derek Fahy (Longford) and Maurice Deegan (Laois) to referee All-Ireland finals. By 2006 he had done 13 years of service to the inter-county panel. He refereed the

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between

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and

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. He was the second Cavanman to referee an All-Ireland final, following Fintan Tierney of

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(who did the 1972 final) and the last until

Joe McQuillan Joe McQuillan is a Gaelic football referee. He is a member of the Kill Shamrocks club in County Cavan. McQuillan has refereed four All-Ireland finals: the 2011 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, 2011 decider between Dublin county fo ...

's first final in

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. In the

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he became involved in a dispute with the CCC, but officials said he was not being punished for refusing to co-operate. Part of the Defence Forces, he is a married father of three daughters and a son. He is interested in

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and athletics and plays

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References

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