Brian Cody has taken exception to Joe Brolly's claim that inter-county footballers and hurlers are being flogged like 'indentured slaves'.

As reported in today's Examiner, the 10-time All-Ireland winning Kilkenny manager said the RTE pundit is missing the point.

"There has been a huge amount of talk in the last few weeks about the life of top sportspeople across all codes and the fact it's going to be so short," Cody outlined in an address he gave at UCD on Monday night.

"It's been said it's akin to slavery what's required now at the top level of sport. That you've no life, that you have no career, that you've nothing except you're being slaughtered essentially.

"I just think that a lot of these people are missing the point completely. The reason why any of us are involved in sport from day one and the reason why all of us stay involved in sport is because you enjoy it."

Revealing some of the secrets of his unprecedented success, Cody continued: "What I kind of love, the whole spirit of the thing, when you know that you're going out on that field and there's nobody, nobody going to outfight you.

"People say going out in a match that 'we're prepared to die to win this game' but that's a dangerous thing to say.

"You should never say you're prepared to die to win. You should always be prepared to kill to win a game. That's the difference."

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