O’Neill keen to nurture youth

A couple of weeks ago in these pages, Dublin hurling boss Anthony Daly referred to new GAA president Liam O’Neill’s views on mentors shouting at children playing hurling and football.

Daly believed the ugliest part of the GAA is the way mentors shout at kids because they want “to go down to the local and boast about winning an underage game” and O’Neill is happy to expand on those views.

“I made a comment at the launch of Féile na nGael in Dublin, saying I hoped no mentor there would berate a child for not having skills he or she didn’t teach them in the first place,” the president said.