GPA must drop-kick this political football

INTERESTING to see a suggestion during the week that GPA members might stand as candidates in next year’s General Election.

GPA must drop-kick this political football

Certainly if you were thinking of a way to prepare players for next year’s International Rules clash with Australia — if there is one — then a few months in the Dáil would be the ideal preparation for off-the-ball tussling, name-calling and retrospective justification.

In all seriousness, however, sports stars contemplating political life, idly or not, should take their time with a decision. Even for men seasoned by hand-to-hand combat in front of 80,000 people in the heat of July and August, politics is fearsome.

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