Dublin’s Paul Flynn has a few things to get off his chest and Seamus Harnedy might not want to see this little embarrassing blast from the past anytime soon.
Flynn blasts structural ‘madness’
This season more than any other, it seems as if the structure of the Championship and of the whole GAA season in general has been called into question, by fans, by pundits and by some very prominent figures within the Association itself.
Two-time All-Star and Dublin wing-forward is the latest to add his voice to the debate and he feels that the demands being made of inter-county players in an era where they are damned near professional are crazy.
“I’ll probably get in trouble for saying it but I do because the whole structure of football in general [is wrong]. Playing football for the whole year is madness. There’s no down season at all,” Flynn is quoted as saying in The Irish Examiner.
“When you go back to the club you’re under pressure there and then you’re straight into it with Dublin again. There’s no real break at all. I’ve got injured for some stages — but it’s actually been lucky for me because I’ve kind of been able to take a break.
“Lads have been just constantly going and it’s a bit of a joke, especially for lads who are playing senior championship at a higher level. It’s just… it’s madness.”
Flynn had more interesting things to say on GAA structures and other matters in the Examiner article which you can read here, but when the concerned voices of the most important characters in the GAA are growing louder by the day, surely action from the top can’t be too far away.
Seamus Harnedy has come a long way from this bawling young fella
There are bound to be fireworks when Cork and Clare meet in the Munster hurling semi-final at the Gaelic Grounds on Sunday and it will be a huge day for Cork’s Seamus Harnedy, who makes his Championship debut at centre-forward.
Harnedy has made the starting XV after some impressive displays in training and for UCC in the club championship but he will be hoping that he feels a lot better after Sunday’s game than he did following a tough experience while playing in the Sciath na Scol competition for Clonpriest National School years and years ago.
The following picture made its way onto Twitter last night via Shane Walsh, who we can only assume is a friend of Harnedy’s… or at least he was until he decided to showcase a snap of a tearful Harnedy and his mother Cathy in the immediate aftermath of what must have been a devastating defeat.
Best of luck to this man lining out for Cork on Sunday, a far cry from his sciath na scol days, excuse the pun pic.twitter.com/Yt3ePijWYU
— Shane Walsh (@shanemwalsh) June 20, 2013
We’ve all been there Seamus, we’ve all been there.
