Paul Galvin wants GAA players to be paid because it will help them chat up women

We have heard many arguments for and against professionalism in the GAA but we think Paul Galvin may have hit on the best reason yet.

On iTalkSport on Setanta Sports this morning the issue of players retiring early from the GAA came up, with Lar Corbett and John Dalton hanging it up this week.

The discussion turned to whether players should get some money, especially those who are out of work. Paul Galvin spoke of how he felt he had to quit the 9-5 of teaching so he could stay competing at the top level and he spoke about how players have lives outside of the GAA and that pay for play was inevitable.

But just as the discussion was wrapping up, the Kerry star came up with an angle on pay for play we hadn’t thought of but one that the players may have.

“The other side of it then is,” said Galvin, “it would be great to say, as a young player, out and about, in a pub or club, and he meets a girl and she asks him what he does and he can say he is a professional footballer. Wouldn’t that be a great thing."

When host Eoin McDevitt asked him if it would help with chatting up women, Galvin replied: “Yeah, yeah.”

We’re not sure if the good ladies of Ireland are more interested in hooking up with a fella because he is getting a €5,000 grant, travel expenses and a tax rebate but we suspect Galvin knows more about this than we do.

We know that the All-Star was joking but it is an interesting angle on the issue and we hope HQ take into consideration the difficulties lads have chatting up women in Ireland.

So, GAA players of Ireland, would a few quid from Croke Park help you pull on a Saturday night? Let us know.