Supplements taken if players wish to aid their nutrition

Éamonn Fitzmaurice had to google the meaning of ‘polypharmacy’ when Sport Ireland published its full and final findings into the Brendan O’Sullivan anti- doping violation.

So he fully understands some GAA followers struggling to keep up with football and hurling’s new lexicon of supplements and gels.

However, he believes that supplements get an unfair rap. “It’s become a dirty word, like there’s some sort of negative connotation attached. A supplement is as it sounds, it’s an add-on, not a replacement, in someone’s diet.