Gaelic football's most successful manager, Mick O'Dwyer, believes inter-county managers should be paid.

The former Kerry, Kildare, Laois and Wicklow boss is also calling on the GAA to up the mileage rate for inter-county players, and accuses the Association of going "overboard" on the whole issue of paying managers.

He is quoted as saying in the Irish Independent: "I think they are going overboard.

"It has been proved over the years that if you bring in an outside manager at times it helps to bring on a club or county, and I think there is nothing wrong with that.

"What I would like to see happening more than any other thing is that they would increase the mileage rate for players going to training, because they have big mortgages and they might give them maybe a euro a mile instead of 50c.

"I'd also like to see all gates in the country in league and championship divided three ways. Central funds would get one third and the two competing counties get the remaining two-thirds, and then county boards would be in a good position. Our infrastructure now is quite sufficient now, it's great."

While opposed to the game becoming professional, O'Dwyer feels managers should be rewarded "in some small way" for their work.

"The whole workload is on the shoulders of the management to organise players and training and make sure they are looked after, so they should be remunerated in some small way," he added. Tweet

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