Former Meath wing back and now Waterford resident is part of John’s Cleary’s Munster management team
Paul Shankey is part of John Cleary's Munster management team for the Allianz Interprovincial Football Series at Croke Park. Photograph: Morgan Treacy/Inpho
They were hosted by GAA president Jarlath Burns, who coincidentally played his last match for Armagh in the 1999 All-Ireland semi-final defeat by Meath. His immediate focus is gathering the Munster challenge for Friday and Saturday. He enthusiastically discusses the proposed new rules, which he has been coaching with his adopted province.
Shankey acknowledges the steps by which football mutated from a fixed position contest for the ball to a caution-ridden possession game and has high praise – “the process has been brilliant” – for the FRC’s work in trying to address the shortcomings. He is impatient with suggestions that the new rules will prove overly burdensome on referees and hard to enforce at club level.
In his own demesne he has plenty to encourage him after Waterford’s breakthrough during the summer, which he personalises.
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