The GAA could be set to go down the road of paying its elite referees.

Eugene McGee, who championed the introduction of the black card as chairman of the Football Review Committee, believes the Association would be better served by a team of twelve full-time men in the middle:

"Personally, I favour the GAA having twelve full-time referees. It could almost be insisted, then, that all referees referee games the same way," he told The Irish Examiner.

"If that were done at county level, it would set a standard around the country. As well as that, those referees could take a sabbatical from their work, do it for three, four or five years, get properly paid for it and in the time between matches coach other referees around the country.

"There is no point in talking and saying 'why don't we do this and that'. Let's do something now. It would be a good investment preaching the same dogma of consistency."

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