Brian Crowe (referee)

Brian Crowe (born 1957 or 1958) is a Gaelic football referee and a member of the Cavan Gaels club who took charge of an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final. As a player he lined out at midfield and centre-forward for Cavan Gaels, but he retired at the start of his twenties to take up refereeing. He refereed the 2000 Connacht Senior Football Championship final and the 2003 Munster Senior Football Championship final, and among club games he handled the 2003 and 2005 All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship finals and two Ulster Senior Club Football Championship finals. By 2006 he had completed 13 years of service on the inter-county panel, and that year he refereed the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship final between Kerry and Mayo. He was the second Cavan man to referee an All-Ireland final, after Fintan Tierney in 1972, and the last until Joe McQuillan in 2011. He serves in the Defence Forces.