Former Dublin footballer was approached to travel to London with a view to joining the group of GAA players who travelled to America
was approached with view to trialling for a kicking contract in American football. The kicking camp was organised in London by former Connacht rugby player Tadhg Leader, founder of the Leader Kicking initiative.Senior county ‘keepers Rory Beggan of Monaghan and Wicklow’s Mark Jackson also participated and await further word, as both have rejoined their county panels in advance of the opening weekend of the football championship.
Asked had he been invited to attend the kicking camp with Leader, he replied, “Yeah. I chose not to. Too old!” He was speaking to The Irish Times at a round-table discussion on the football championship, which starts this weekend. Taking part were the newspaper’s long-standing columnist Darragh Ó Sé from Kerry, Rock, who isrom Saturday April 13th and Donegal’s Michael Murphy, who is also starting a weekly column, from next Monday April 8th.
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