Boys in Green playing hard ball with the hacks

Word of warning: this is a column about the media and the people charged with keeping them at bay.

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.

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