Robbie Kelleher: ‘If I was a club player now, I think I’d go off and play rugby’

Robbie Kelleher brings a double perspective to bear on Dublin and the GAA.

An All-Ireland winner with Kevin Heffernan’s great Dubs side of the 70s and an economist with Davy Stockbrokers, he injects some realism into last year’s suggestions that the Dublin GAA juggernaut, well-financed, all-conquering, was going to rule for years.

“There may be some justification for it, but I felt that the hype surrounding Dublin last year, certainly, was greatly exaggerated — five in a row, all that kind of stuff.