Curley: No issue with ref nepotism

NATIONAL referees committee chairman Mick Curley says the GAA have no problem with referees appointing sons or any family members as umpires providing they pass the required rules tests.

Syl Doyle’s son Ricky and his brother Richard were the two umpires he overruled in Croke Park on Sunday after Meath’s Graham Geraghty flicked the ball to the net in the Leinster SFC quarter-final defeat to Kildare.

“There’s no issue there,” said Curley. “Once they have their course done and passed, they’re umpires. If they haven’t they’re not permitted to umpire.