The remaining Area Meetings for this season, scheduled for February and March, will be taking place online. The North East and North Midlands will combine with the Midlands and South East for the Thursday workshop...

Happy 2021 to all. Hopefully everyone had an enjoyable break. 2020 started out for us on positive note with 40 plus referees attending our first recruiting seminar of the year. The course was at full...

Words from Trevor McHugh Paddy Curran retires today as an active referee in the ARLB. Under normal conditions the occasion would be marked with a leisurely match conducted at Paddy’s pace followed by an evening of...

Following from our very successful evening in December, when all 4 Referee Associations/Society came together to learn from Dr Tadgh MacIntrye, the Referee Department are pleased to announce we will be running another event this...

IT WAS DURING the first lockdown last year that Su Carty had a moment of epiphany. Working one of her 12-hour shifts as a psychiatric nurse at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, covered head to toe in...

Happy Christmas and New Year to everyone. We hope everyone is enjoying the holiday  season. December and January would normally be a busy time for our referees but of course this year is different. We...

Planning is currently ongoing for the remainder of the season and, as part of that, the Area Meeting dates for the remainder of the season have been set. All meetings will be continuing as they...

We start this week’s referee corner on another sad note. Our refereeing colleague and good friend Declan Mahon passed away on November 22nd after a short illness. If you look up “Great club man” in...

I started out my refereeing career in 2001 and as I moved through the ranks at a steady pace, a young Sean Gallagher joined a few years later and shot by me. One of Ireland...

Kevin 'Kiwi' Beggs has agreed to join us to provide an insight into the citing and judicial process in the professional and domestic game. For those who don’t know Beggsy, he was an active referee...