Dara Ó Cinnéide: 'If you don’t have county players present in club matches, the game is gone'

Dara Ó Cinnéide has encouraged the GAA to get behind the principle of former Dublin footballer Dr Noel McCaffrey’s proposal to reconnect inter-county players with their clubs.

The An Ghaeltacht chairman, a selector with the club’s recent All-Ireland winning intermediate footballers, admits the motion to create an eligibility level of eight club appearances in the previous season to play for one’s county the following year will put pressure on fixture-makers.

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