Dinny Allen on the hardest thing in Irish sport: 'I don’t enjoy watching Gaelic football anymore'

'If Cork are playing I watch, and I’d look at a few hand-picked games like Dublin v Kerry, but the rest, really, I wouldn’t be interested'

Dinny Allen of Cork in action in 1984. Picture: INPHO/Billy Stickland

Dinny Allen enjoyed the kind of career that seems particular to a certain place and a certain time.

Allen’s well-stocked trophy cabinet includes a FAI Cup medal from 1973, won with Cork Hibernians, and memories of his turn with the Cork senior hurlers.