Amateur dramatics or not, testing is here to stay

As sure as night follows day, you knew it was coming, writes Brendan O’Brien

And there it was, within minutes of the news earlier this week that a Gaelic football player had been banned for two years for failing a drug test: the small, self-righteous wing of the GAA family taking to their keyboards to wail about how disgraceful it was that the men who play our national games should be subjected to such draconian rules in the first place.

‘Shur, aren’t they only amateurs?’ was the gist.