Excessive grind hurting GAA players when career bright lights switched off

"In recent times, I have had to tell people to stop training. I never had to do that before in my life."

Over the last decade in particular, as science and technology began to truly run amok with the basic enjoyment of Gaelic games, the public have sympathised with inter-county players whose time is coveted by management teams at a number of levels, writes Peter McNamara.

The perception is that the top-end movers and shakers are railroaded by those presiding over the teams they are associated with at club and inter-county grades.