GER GILROY: Glory days of access all areas

The best interview is always the immediate post-match in the dressing room which you don’t really get any more.

When I was starting out in the late ’90s, you’d have access to the dressing room.

I remember being able to cross from the press box to the far dressing room at Croke Park. The fastest way was actually to get onto the pitch. All you had to do was flash your press badge to the steward and say you were press, show the microphone and they would let you walk along the sideline.