Paying the price of success

Seamus Aldridge and Tadhg Fennin can agree on one thing — Kildare have been getting too hard a time of it of late.

Both admit news of Croke Park’s €300,000 advance at the same time the senior footballers were on a training camp in Portugal was bad PR, but not to the extent that the county deserved to be lambasted in the media.

The pair differ on the self-financing done by the footballers, although they both feel Kildare’s woes pale in significance to those of other counties.