Players have responsibility to put on show for new audience

A lot of Irish people fail to realise how little is known about Gaelic football and hurling beyond these shores.

Arthur Bright, an American journalist who attended last year’s All-Ireland hurling final, summed it up beautifully.

At the start of his article, Bright explained to his readers that during his afternoon in Croke Park he had watched the “greatest team sport in the world that no one has ever heard of”.