Fears over assaults on referees

THE GAA's Director-General Liam Mulvihill has admitted to being worried by the upsurge of physical assaults on referees in recent months.

"Any one case of an attack on a referee is serious, but when you have a number of them over a short period of time it's obviously a major concern. And, it's one that we will be addressing through the Central Council and our structures," he said yesterday.

"There has been quite an amount of indiscipline in various events at club level over the last six months, some of them which were not reported in the national papers. We even had a very serious case in a colleges game in Dublin the other day. Every one of those issues causes us concern. It's something we would hope that would not be happening in an ideal situation.