Another giant step for rugby kind

The hurler and footballer and soccer player on the ditch is a great fella for tradition. This can be a nuisance for brave, forward-looking men like Páraic Duffy and Pete Winkelman.

Another giant step for rugby kind

The trouble with this regard for tradition, this fondness for the old way of doing things, is a severe allergy to change.

In Duffy’s case, this means he must, every time he is presented with a way to make a few handy quid, consider the likely hullabaloo from auld lads up boreens trying to watch the telly or Mayo people wondering if the quickest way to Limerick would be to go by Dublin altogether.

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