Cork manager Peader Healy says he has no issue with referee Ciaran Branagan after the Down official appeared to bring proceedings to an early end in yesterday's All-Ireland SFC qualifier loss to Mayo.

Luke Connolly's 77th minute free forced the game at the Gaelic Grounds into extra time for the Rebels and they trailed by a point again in second-half injury-time before Branagan blew the final whistle 20 seconds short of the announced three minutes of additional time.

"Look, the referee is a human being. I'm sure when he looked at it, he felt the time was up," Healy told the Irish Examiner.

"He maybe thought it was 3:20. If we got a turnover who knows what would have happened but, look, I'm not going to blame a referee. To be fair, I thought he did a good job."

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