Mr. Donal Smyth:

We have a number of them, but we are slightly different from the other organisations because we have camogie and the Ladies' Gaelic Football Association, LGFA. These are our sister organisations, and they supply referees. There is a dual mandate across the organisations. Many GAA referees referee at both ladies’ camogie and football. Even though Maggie Farrelly is refereeing, we would not consider her a female referee. Rather, we consider her a referee. She has been on the Ulster panel for the last while. She is on the provincial panel. There is no recruitment ban and we encourage everybody to be involved in refereeing. We bring them through the system in the same way as everybody else.

To go back to where I started, there is a correlation between what is happening between what is happening in the LGFA and the camogie and our games. Even though they are three different organisations, there is much correlation between the referees across the three associations.