The GAA opened its Hall of Fame doors today at a ceremony at the GAA museum at Croke Park, with former Limerick hurler Eamon Cregan and former Offaly footballer Tony McTague the first inductees.
The Hall of Fame will induct players from separate periods of time over the next few years, with McTague and Cremon coming from the 1970-1974 period. The football and hurling teams of the millennium were also added to the museum’s celebration of the association’s past.

The inductees are selected by a five man committee, consisting of O’Neill, former GAA president Nickey Brennan, Iar-Ucahtarán Criostóir Ó’Cuana and journalists Sean Moran and Martin Breheny.

Eamon Cregan was an All-Ireland winning hurler with Limerick, part of the great side of the late 60s and early 70s. He was an All-Ireland winner in 1973, Limerick’s only All-Ireland hurling triumph in the past 73 years.

Cregan spoke to Newstalk after the ceremony and talked about his own career, and how the Hall of Fame fits into that, as well as about the problems in Limerick hurling today, from players lost to soccer and rugby to the end of the time when young players played, and practised, hurling with the ferocious dedication needed to master the game.