Tommy Martin: Does the GAA really want the lad who can’t kick snow off a rope?

This week’s bout of GAA’s soul-searching as to why so many drop out in their teens included a mini culture war.

This week’s bout of GAA’s soul-searching as to why so many drop out in their teens included a mini culture war. Pic: Chani Anderson.

I was a teenage GAA dropout.

This column normally likes to avoid writing in the first person because it is about sport, something this column would generously describe itself as middling at. Therefore, if you extrapolate that out, there are approximately 4.1 billion people in the planet better to write about it.