Bohemians' player-manager Gareth Farrelly has vented his frustration at referee Alan Kelly following the Cork official's ruling of Friday's 2-1 home defeat to Derry City at Dalymount Park.

Farrelly, scorer of his side's goal on the night, believes Kelly should have awarded his side a penalty when Stephen Rice was grounded by Eddie McCallion in the first half.

He also heavily criticised Kelly's controversial awarding of a penalty early in the second half - which Mark Farren successfully converted to secure full points for the visitors.

"I cant say anything otherwise I'll be taking out a credit union loan to pay the fine for telling the truth," says Farrelly, who also saw Kelly dismiss Thomas Heary for dissent after 55 minutes.

Cork manager Damien Richardson was recently fined €3000 and handed a four-match touchline ban for comments he made about a match official following his side's FAI Cup defeat to Longford Town.

"What's cost us is something that happens in every box in every game in the eircom league every weekend," says Farrelly.

"But the inconsistencies are absolutely frightening, the perfect case being the incident with Stephen Rice in the first half.  If that is not a penalty then I just don't know.

"Little things have a massive impact on games.  I just hope something improves. There is no solidarity, people only talk about problems when they're affected directly themselves.   Something has to give."

Derry manager Stephen Kenny was disappointed that his side failed to up-tempo when a man to the good following Heary's straight red.

"It should really have given us the initiative to go and use the extra man but we didn't do that," he concedes.

"When we played Dublin City recently they had a man sent off and we used the extra player and won well.  This time there was no flow to our play and we stumbled over the line a little bit."