'The fun had gone out of the whole thing': Why Jack McCaffrey quit Dublin panel

The drawn All-Ireland final - in which he was Man of the Match - and the realisation that he would have to do it all again in the replay as "broke" him, he said
'The fun had gone out of the whole thing': Why Jack McCaffrey quit Dublin panel

Jack McCaffrey of Dublin during last year's All-Ireland final with Kerry. Picture: David Fitzgerald/Sportsfile

Jack McCaffrey has revealed how he walked away from Dublin and inter-county football in disillusion following last February's Allianz League defeat to Tyrone in Omagh.

The five-time All-Ireland winner and 2015 Footballer of the Year said he first felt "the fun had gone out of the whole thing" in the middle of 2019 though played on and won his fourth All-Star.

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