GAA president Larry McCarthy joins David Brady’s lockdown outreach

Brady sadly reports some of those he had chatted with have since passed, the majority of them not Covid-related

REACHING OUT: Former Mayo footballer David Brady says the experience of ringing elderly people to chat about Gaelic games remains as rewarding as it did when he started the initiative during the first lockdown last April. Picture: Seb Daly

David Brady has revealed new GAA president Larry McCarthy has joined him as he continues to call up elderly people for a chat about Gaelic games.

Having started the initiative during the first lockdown last April, Brady is in his 12th month making friends of strangers. A few weeks into it, the then president-elect asked if he could help and he still is.