Bas Man

Questions and Answers. Paudie Butler, the GAA’s National Hurling Co-ordinator.

Michael Moynihan: Most important player qualities? Skill, enthusiasm, intelligence, mobility?

Paudie Butler: “With top-level players there’s another level of awareness that’s not generally in the average player. They’re older than their years when it comes to the game – take a county minor, he’s operating a level beyond club players. He has to, otherwise he wouldn’t progress.”