FAI ref given ‘red card’ by company bosses after spotted officiating at three matches during sick leave

Ms McGrath said that the man had abused the company’s sick pay scheme and that it was wrong of him “to dupe his employer in the way that he did”.

By Gordon Deegan

An FAI soccer referee was given the ‘red card’ by his employer after his bosses discovered that he officiated at three matches while on sick leave last year.