Shane Curran wants GAA transfer market to stop counties 'giving up the ghost'

Former Roscommon captain Shane Curran has urged the GAA to strongly consider an inter-county transfer market or 'draft system', citing the success of Shea Fahy and Larry Tompkins with Cork in the past
Shane Curran wants GAA transfer market to stop counties 'giving up the ghost'

Shane Curran: 'We have to readjust the competitive landscape or else, and I've said this before and got a lot of stick for it, the GAA will be like the Catholic church and Fianna Fail — they'll fail the people eventually and will have no followers.' Picture: INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

Former Roscommon captain Shane Curran has urged the GAA to strongly consider an inter-county transfer market or 'draft system', citing the success of Shea Fahy and Larry Tompkins with Cork in the past.

Ex-goalkeeper and 2019 Roscommon U-20 manager Curran also pointed to the more recent success of Kerryman Conor Cox with the Rossies seniors.

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