Tommy Sugrue
Tommy Sugrue is a Gaelic football referee from County Kerry. He is from, and lives in, Tralee. Sugrue refereed four finals of the All-Ireland SFC during the 1980s and 1990s: 1988 (both the drawn game and replay), 1992 and 1994. Career He began refereeing in 1977, got given the 1983 Kerry County Final. Then off it all went for him. He got Cork v Dublin in the 1983 National League semi-final then he gotput onto to the inter-county referees' panel. He did more than 13 years of inter-county. He refereed National Football League semi-finals and finals (he refereed the 1990 National Football League final wearing socks), he refereed four All Ireland SFC semi-finals, an All-Ireland Under-21 Football Championship and Club Final, he refereed in the Munster and Ulster Senior Football Championships. He refereed the four All-Ireland SFC finals: 1988's Cork v Meath (drawn game and replay); 1992's Donegal v Dublin; 1994's Down v Dublin. Sugrue refereed four finals of the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. First came the 1988 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final, contested by Meath and Cork, the game when they got a Kerryman to referee a Cork game. This ended in a draw so there was a replay,