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Is it feasible to be a modern dual player?

Listen to the full chat above Aidan Walsh, Damien Cahalane and Eoin Cadogan will have their diar...
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20.38 2 Jul 2014


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Is it feasible to be a modern dual player?

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Aidan Walsh, Damien Cahalane and Eoin Cadogan will have their diaries full for the next while as all three are getting ready for two Munster Finals in two weeks.

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The Cork trio are preparing for this weekend's Munster Football final against Kerry, before picking up the hurls for a provincial hurling final against Limerick on July 13th.

But can dual players still balance both codes in the modern GAA?

Tonight we were joined by former Cork dual star Diarmuid O’Sullivan and by Denis Walsh of the Sunday Times to debate that issue.

O'Sullivan believes Aidan Walsh's achievements this year in combining both codes is "outstanding" and thinks his physical condition has helped him cope.

But Denis Walsh is cautious when it comes to the dual player issue.

"Don't forget too that [Cork football manager] Brian Cuthbert didn't pick Cahalane or Aidan Walsh for the Tipperary match last week and he flagged it in advance that those guys, because they were with the hurlers for a few weeks, had jeopardized their chances of starting that match," said Walsh.

O'Sullivan spoke about his own experience of playing dual and how he was asked "which rabbit he had to chase".

Walsh also feels that a "good hurler will make a handy footballer but a good footballer won't necessarily make a handy hurler. These guys need to be hurling."


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