Waterford ladies football manager Pat Sullivan believes that female inter county players should receive travel expenses.
Ladies footballers and camogie players will play the rest of the 2023 championships under protest due to the lack of progress on a player charter. A State of Play report from the GPA revealed recently that only 9.5 per cent of female players receive travel expenses from their county board, with six per cent of those getting less than 20 cent per mile. Male intercounty players receive 70 cent per mile.
"You have a hurler or a footballer, that's travelling to training from Dublin, Limerick or Cork, that individual will get mileage expenses to cover them," Sullivan told WLR Sport. "They have access to a physio, to a doctor, to a nutritionist etc, etc. That same person could have a sister or a partner that's with the ladies football, they will travel from Dublin, Cork or Limerick, they have to put diesel or petrol in their own car, they don't take expenses. They don't have full access to a doctor, to a physio or a nutritionist. We're really lucky in the Waterford ladies set-up that we have full access to a physio and full access to a nutritionist. We're blessed in Waterford with the last 25 years with Michael Ryan in Al Eile stud. The reason we have a full time nutritionist is because of Michael. We wouldn't have the capability to do that otherwise. We're very lucky that we have access to a physio and we have access to a nutritionist. Everything else that those girls do comes out of their own pocket."
Listen back to the full interview with Pat Sullivan from Friday's Lár Na Páirce.
