The Hitchhiker’s guide to the GAA-laxy

The Road to Croker is littered with costly, and painful, extras, but none as painful as Adrian Russell’s (pictured) attempts to do it on the cheap (And he still spent €100 on us). This is his tale of woe.

ASK A New York cabbie, “How do I get to Carnegie Hall?” and they’ll invariably tell you “practice, practice, practice”.

With my collar pulled above the nape of my neck, to shield myself from a sheet of the wettest Kerry rain, as I shuffled along the road between Killarney and Tralee before 8am on Saturday morning, I realised getting to Croke Park was a journey not dissimilar.