Dick Clerkin: Why is there such pressure to retire?

GAA retirements have become very fashionable these days.

There’s nearly more fervour devoted to predicating which thirtysomethings are going to walk away than there is to picking the All Stars.

As far back as 2010 (I was 29) people started asking me if I would be back the following year. It is assumed that playing into your 30s is generally not feasible anymore, such are the demands of inter-county football.