Pat Gilroy: ‘If GAA really wanted to have dual players it could’

It shouldn’t be a surprise that Pat Gilroy took over the Dublin hurlers.

After all, the man who managed the Dubs to Sam Maguire in 2011 always wanted to hurl for his county.

“I would have preferred to be a Dublin hurler than a Dublin footballer but I wasn’t good enough. At the time, the hurling was a game that I preferred all the way up playing it. But I wasn’t as good as I was at football.