Goalkeeping great Seamus Durack fears GAA ethos destroyed

His 23-year-old son routinely tells him he’s old-fashioned but Seamus Durack has never left the coalface of hurling these last 50 years. Be it senior or under-age teams (this year he completed a two-season stint with his own Éire Óg seniors in Ennis), he has made sure to remain relevant.

But having played in a era he describes as “mostly serious but always enjoyable”, what he sees going on now in the GAA he determines as contradicting what the association meant to him and those before.

“I am delighted I played hurling in a free-for-all time,” he says. “Where winning wasn’t absolutely everything. They were happier times for the GAA.”