Boys in Green playing hard ball with the hacks
After the blur of green which crossed the ocean to play in North America during this past fortnight, I can’t avoid these messy internal politics even though I know how self-regarding it will sound.
It’s just I had somehow forgotten what it’s like to deal with the top-ranking Irish sporting bodies and how uptight they start to feel any time a player shows a little bit of personality or a journalist shows a little bit of initiative.