Taoiseach reveals how GAA's pandemic shutdowns caused angst at home

In an extract from After The Storm, a new book on how the GAA navigated the pandemic years, Micheál Martin recounts fraught conversations 

Family ties: An Taoiseach Micheál Martin TD and his wife Mary with their son, Nemo Rangers captain Micheal Aodh Martin, and the cup after the 2020 Cork County Senior Club Football Championship Final match between between Castlehaven and Nemo Rangers at Páirc Ui Chaoimh in Cork. Pic: Brendan Moran/Sportsfile

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has revealed for the first time the tight bind that pandemic restrictions on GAA activities put him in — both politically and personally. 

As the country wrestled with the push and pull of tightening and loosening restrictions on much of daily life in the first year of the COVID-19 outbreak, both Gaelic football and hurling found themselves at the centre of high-profile breaches of protocol.