Aidan Walsh enjoys life in the sole lane

Aidan Walsh is reaping the rewards since quitting football to concentrate on hurling with Cork

No juggling, no switching between codes and no two masters.

Physically, Aidan Walsh says the decision to abandon dual status for 2015 has had little or no impact on his body. An equal number of training sessions have been attended, the gym hours clocked are no different to what they would have been this time last year. This notion that his workload would considerably lessen by virtue of dispensing with the football gloves is nonsense.