Traditional expectations of GAA player sacrifice are framed as outdated and illegitimate
[loaded_language], [sensationalism]
“’Tis a long way from liver fluke, lads. Time was, the humble GAA player concerned himself only with training twice a week, playing a game after Mass on a Sunday and maybe, if the thing was going well enough for long enough, eventually getting a gig selling some class of farmyard chemical. Now they’re going on Love Island.”