A club GAA player on the pain of enforced retirement

This isn’t a retirement statement per se. Writing this started off as my way of coping with GAA retirement. It was my way of expressing my emotions to myself. But I realised pretty quickly that there were some pretty important messages worth sharing, says Michael Sheehan.

A club GAA player on the pain of enforced retirement

We hear about inter-county retirements all the time and, in the modern day game, the support network through many organisations such as the GPA is being built up to assist these individuals post-playing days.

This is only right, but, what about the majority who are not at that level and, through old age, or just falling out of love with the game, or, in my case, through injury, have to leave the world of playing GAA?

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