GAA players shouldn’t face drug testing

Tommy Walsh sees no reason why inter-county Gaelic players should be subject to drug tests because they are amateur sportsmen.

GAA players shouldn’t face drug testing

As a doping controversy continues to engulf Australian Rules and the Essendon club, where 34 past and present players have been handed sanction notices, the outgoing Sydney Swans player believes the same standards in the professional sport should not apply to Gaelic games.

In the Big Interview in tomorrow’s Examiner Sport, the 2009 footballer of the year also talks about his much-anticipated return to Kerry next month five years on after starting an AFL career, which was hit by injury.

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