Anger as LGFA increases mileage rates for its officials while players go uncompensated

Privately, inter-county players are seething at the mileage increase paid to top-brass and national committee members, while they do not receive any travel expenses from LGFA coffers.

Higher rates: LGFA president Mícheál Naughton with LGFA chief executive Helen O’Rourke during the GAA Congress at NUI Galway Connacht GAA Air Dome in Bekan, Mayo. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

The LGFA has increased the mileage rate paid to its management committee and those who sit on national subcommittees, at a time when the association does not pay its inter-county players a cent in travel expenses.

The mileage rate increase from 30c to 40c per kilometre was approved at the June meeting of the LGFA Central Council and is paid for journeys undertaken as part of a person’s management or committee role.