Time for lifetime bans for GAA violence, says legal expert

ZERO TOLERANCE: The GAA should consider issuing lifetime bans to those members who assault match officials, says Niall Geaney. Pic: Piaras Ó Mídheach/Sportsfile

A leading sports law solicitor has suggested the GAA considers issuing lifetime bans to those members who assault match officials.

Niall Geaney, who has offices in Cork and Limerick and is a member of the FIA’s Formula One cost cap adjudication panel, intimates the GAA now has to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to physical attacks on referees.